How BBC News represented the story:
A French teacher is under investigation for manslaughter after he apparently led schoolchildren onto a closed ski run shortly before a deadly avalanche.
Police are waiting to take the teacher into custody. He was seriously injured in the disaster and remains in hospital. Two pupils and a Ukrainian tourist were killed when the avalanche struck in the Les Deux Alpes on Wednesday.
Warnings were in place after heavy snow in recent days. The two students who died were a boy of 14 and a 16-year-old girl from Saint-Exupery high school in Lyon. The Ukrainian man who was killed was not part of the school group.
"We have to interview the hospitalised teacher as soon as we can," Grenoble prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat told reporters on Thursday. "The question is: Why were they skiing on a closed piste?"
A huge rescue operation was launched after the avalanche struck the group of 10 teenagers, their teacher and the Ukrainian, 57, on the Bellecombe piste at about 15:45 local time (14:45 GMT) on Wednesday. The piste, which has the most difficult black rating, had been closed since the beginning of the ski season because of a lack of snow, a manager at Les Deux Alpes told local media.
My Opinion:
I think this is truly shocking and I've heard so many stories about deaths or major injuries occurring during school skiing trips. I think this definitely says something about the safety of them and more precautions need to be taken when planning and on these trips to ensure all the pupils are completely safe. Stories like this may be especially impactful for parents who are considering sending their children on skiing trips because they may find themselves re-thinking the safety of the decision. If it is true what they say and it is manslaughter, then that is absolutely horrible and again, just shows the lack of trust there is in this world.
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