“A very serious matter.” This is how Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot describes the defective scandal of airbags. “How could we have circulated millions of cars worldwide with airbags that are particularly dangerous?”
This global issue experienced a new turn on Monday with the manufacturer Citroën, which extended its “stop” withdrawal to the memory of C3 and DS3 to the entire Metropolitan France, in the northern half of France for vehicles produced between 2008 and 2013. This means that the brand has asked the owners of these vehicles to immobilize them.
An inspection mission
The transport minister explained that he had led the manufacturer to make this decision. “Since I have been in office, I wanted to accentuate information and retirement requests,” he said. And he even wants to go further.
He announced that he wanted to create “an inspection mission to know how far the State can go to force manufacturers to these issues.”
A “responsibility” of manufacturing manufacturers
But who is guilty in this case? “With a little retrospective, things will say” but “there is probably a responsibility for manufacturers in any case of manufacturing, for having dealt with the Takata company,” said the minister.
He recalled that in the thirty manufacturers they are concerned even if the massive memory refers to Stellantis. “This airbag has not been manufactured since 2019 and some manufacturers have arrested since 2016 since 2016,” he said.
“Many vehicles still circulate” even if they “are almost all identified in construction sites,” he said.
The lawyer who accompanies seven families of deceased victims and 10 severely injured victims is also struggling for the creation of a Parliamentary Investigation Commission that would allow the various actors of this case to be questioned.
Source: BFM TV
