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French court hands Yemenia Airways maximum fine over 2009 crash

Members of France's Comoran community march in memory of the victims of the Yemenia crash. The placard reads "Yemenia: aeroplane cemeteries. We Comorans don't want this anymore." AFP - BORIS HORVAT

A Paris court has convicted Yemen's national airline of involuntary homicide and injuries over a 2009 crash that killed 152 of the people on board. The only survivor was a 12-year-old girl.

Yemenia Airways, whose executives did not attend the trial, was sentenced to the maximum fine of 225,000 euros and ordered to pay over 1 million euros to two victims' associations for damages and costs.

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