Train Driver in Deadly Moroccan Derailment Released After Serving Sentence

He will have been sentenced to serve a sentence of 5 months and 5 days for involuntary manslaughter and injury, for having caused the derailment of a train, between Kenitra and Bouknadel, killing 7 and injuring more than 120 passengers. This sentence will be fully served today. And this train driver will be able to join his children today.

The prosecutor of the king near the court of first instance of Salé had then declared in a press release: "The investigation carried out by the judicial police services of the Royal Gendarmerie on the derailment of the high-speed shuttle train (TNR) connecting Rabat to Kenitra at the level of Bouknadel revealed that the excessive speed which reached 158 km/h at the accident site where the maximum speed is limited to 60 km/h, is the cause of the derailment of the train whose locomotive hit a bridge, killing seven passengers and injuring 125".

His relatives said they were happy with his release from prison, however his lawyer nevertheless expressed his willingness to appeal in order to completely exonerate him.