All 3 MMA rail workers acquitted in Lac-Megantic disaster trial

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Residents favor verdict. Now company (bankrupt) faces charges of criminal negligence causing death

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lac-megantic-criminal-negligence-verdict-1.4474848

{...} Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway, which filed for bankruptcy in 2013, will be next to defend itself against charges of criminal negligence causing death. {...}

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lac-megantic-residents-react-1.4496062

'It broke their lives': Lac-Mégantic residents support acquittals of MMA rail workers
Many resident believe 3 accused were not the ones responsible for the disaster

The father of victim Kathy Clusiault, Jean Clusiault, was at the courthouse in Sherbrooke, when the verdicts were announced and approved of the acquittals. "These are human beings, with families, who worked hard all their lives. These aren't killers. We treated them like killers," Clusiault said.

He added that his sympathies go out to locomotive engineer Tom Harding, 56, rail traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, and operations manager Jean Demaître, 53, because of the toll the trial has taken on them in the past four-and-a-half years.

"It broke their lives," he said.

When asked who he thought was to blame for the disaster, he pulled out a piece of paper with a list of names of upper management at the now-defunct MMA.