Passenger sues French rail company after missing train
The beginning of this story is common place in France, but the ending is unprecedented.
On an early June morning in 2008, Remy Rouquette, a lawyer, boards a train in Melun station is the southeast suburbs of Paris. Bound for Paris’ Gare de Lyon station, the train leaves on schedule at 5:37am. But following a track switch mistake the train belonging to the national SNCF rail company arrives 19 minutes late. Rouquette misses his connecting train, a 7:24 regional to the southern city of Nimes. More importantly, he misses his scheduled 10am court appearance in that city.
Unfortunately for SNCF, that’s not the end of the story.
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