Every day, Paulina performs 40 kilometers of road to go to work in Caen. She has just learned, like many motorists, that her DS 3 car has defective Takata airbags. Despite the danger, she must continue to roll with her car because she has an appointment with the mechanic only … mid-April!
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Some 236,900 owners of Citroën C3 and DS 3 in the north of France were called on Monday, February 17, 2025, to no longer roll the time that their airbags were changed, as part of a new wave of immobilization linked to Defective airbag scandal Takata.
These airbags are likely to cause serious injuries and have already caused at least 12 deaths In France, including 11 in overseas, where the climate degrades one of their components faster, according to the Ministry of Transport.
Paulina, 36, works at the Calvados Departmental Council in Caen. She lives 20 kilometers from her workplace and goes back and forth every day in her Citroën DS 3, which dates from 2013.
“For the first campaign (first immobilization campaign – called” stop drive ” – launched by Citroën and DS in early 2024 in the south of Europe and in the Maghreb, editor’s note), I was not concerned. But when I I heard about this second campaign, I went to the Citroën website with the number of my gray card and I was concerned. “
She first tried to call her usual garage. In vain. “They are overwhelmed,” she says. “Suddenly, I made an appointment on the Citroën site for mid-April.”
In the meantime, Paulina is forced to go to her car work, at her risk.
I know it’s dangerous but I have no choice. I was only offered bus tickets or a bicycle in exchange …
Paulina, motorist
Already 12 years that the motorist was riding with his DS 3 and that nothing happened. “It does not worry me more than that, which bothers me the most is to be forced to find someone in mid-April to come and get me and bring me back when my car is in the garage,” sighs- she.
For her part, she does not intend to turn to justice. “I’m just going to solve the problem and afterwards, we don’t talk about it anymore,” she breathes.
Nine families of deceased and eleven injured – most victims of serious facial mutilations – ask for the establishment of a “unique instruction center” on this dossier with great technical complexity, “as could have been done In the affairs of the Mediator, Pip, Lactalis prostheses “.
At the same time, the lawyer Charles-Henri Coppet, who represents them explains to AFP that they have arrested deputies and senators in order to “wonder about the management of reminders and perhaps change the legislative arsenal by allowing that such accidents do not happen again “.
The deputy for Ain Marc Chavent (UDR) filed a proposal for the creation of a parliamentary committee on February 12 to investigate the conditions of defective airbag reminders.