Decade-Long Quest for Justice: Parents Await Trial in Daughter’s Summer Camp Drowning

The case is tainted with negligence, and it took 10 years of struggle for her father, Mourad, for the case to be referred to the Criminal Court for involuntary manslaughter. A trial will finally take place before next spring.

According to Mourad, interviewed by the newspaper Le Parisien, "we will only truly mourn when we have the answers. The supervisors must answer for their actions. We need to know how it happened." Little Anissa had lost her life while participating in a hydrospeed activity.

The couple, deeply affected by the loss of Anissa, ended up giving up a restaurant in Etampes, because "it was too hard with the customers, it was no longer possible for us to manage our business," says the father, who has retrained as a driver.

Mourad has decided to take his life back with both hands. "We can’t give up, we have to keep living, the elders have grown up, they’re getting their driver’s licenses, they have their high school diplomas, I’m proud of them," he says.