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Prosecutors on Monday called for substantial penalties in the trial of the French national railway company SNCF and some of its employees over the derailment of a TGV test train in Alsace some eight years ago that killed 11 and left 42 injured. The prosecution demanded a two-year suspended prison sentence for the railway employee in the driver’s cab of the high-speed TGV responsible for determining the braking point and a one-year suspended prison sentence for the train driver, the broadcaster France Info and the newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace reported from the Paris courtroom. The…

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