Nearly 12 years after Air Algérie Flight AH5017 crashed in Mali, as it travelled from Burkina Faso to Algeria, the Paris Correctional Court will hear the case against Spanish airline Swiftair from Monday.
The hearings, set to run until 2 April, follow French judges' rejection of a second attempt to refer preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE), the EU's highest court.
