After a new death related to Takata defective airbags installed in the Citroën C3 and DS3, the car giant called on Tuesday, June 16, all the French owners of these vehicles, including the Normans, to immediately immobilize their cars.
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On June 11, when she was driving near Reims on a highway on her Citroën C3, a 37 -year -old woman died after the explosion of her airbag.
A tragic death whose airbag responsibility, provided by the Japanese manufacturer Takata, was quickly recognized.
The incident is not isolated: in March 2025, another driver was the victim of a defective airbag of the same brand in Guadeloupe. What alert Stellentis, a Franco-ITALO-American group with Citroën, to ask all French drivers of Citroën C3 and DS3, and among them Normans, to “immediately immobilize their vehicles”.
The site promises to be colossal. If a first recall operation had taken place in the north of France in February 2025 concerning vehicles built between 2008 and 2013, it now extends to all models, regardless of their manufacturing year.
A campaign called “Stop Drive” and including Xavier Chardon, director of Citroën, reminds AFP that she tends “to that there is no longer a single Takata airbag in the Citroën”.
In order to achieve this objective, Stellentis has not skimped on the means according to Jean-Charles Lefebvre, spokesperson for the group. “All operations are at the expense of Citroën, just make an appointment with his dealership and it is done in thirty minutes. Last February, so as not to slow down the cadence, we even mobilized a unit of our factory in Caen to continue to change the airbags.”
However, a complex company to which the automotive group seems to hold the pace. “Since February 2025, out of the 690,300 cars recalled at the start, nearly 400,000 have already been treated,” said Jean-Charles Lefebvre.