Place to the verb at the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 with the start of the pleadings. The civil party lawyers who open the ball as required by the procedure have chosen for the most part to plead in a coordinated manner and not only for their clients. Record of hearing.
” They had no cause, they had no enemies, they got hit and we all wavered. We don’t choose our enemies, they choose us », Begins Me Sylvie Topaloff. ” The West has a lot to blame itself for, its greed, its inequalities… “, continues the lawyer. “ So many things that can be criticized. But what the jihadists blame us for are not our vices, but our virtues. »
Me Jean Reinhart composes for him on evil and misfortune, reports our special correspondent at the Paris Courthouse, Nathanael Vittrant. ” To the official number of victims, now 132, are added fathers and mothers who died of grief. This is the Chernobyl effect. One does not innocently approach the fiery abyss of evil. »
Me Catherine Szwarc returns to the feeling of guilt often expressed by the survivors at the bar: of having survived, having to trample bodies to get out or leave a loved one behind them. “ On the side of the accused, did we hear, at a single moment, “I feel guilty, I have blood on my hands”? We didn’t hear it. »
Me Monod addresses Farid Kharkhach accused of having provided false papers to the terrorist cell. He is convinced that he closed his eyes to the radicalization of his clients out of greed. ” Who sups with the devil must have a long spoon. Mr. Kharkhach’s problem is that he had dinner with the devil, but he had his nose in the plate. In the box, Farid Kharkhach is agitated.
Pleadings until June 7
These pleadings, scheduled until June 7, begin with five days of a “ unpublished collective argument organized by theme, as lawyer Frédérique Giffard explains in an introductory remark.
” How, in a few minutes, can you tell the infinite diversity of the victims and the bond that brings them together? It’s infeasible she told the court. ” We’ve been composing for six years so that our clients don’t suffer twice: first because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time “, and in order not to suffer ” of having been too numerous to each be able to be a victim in their own right “.
So, to carry all their words without doing mass “, not to “ create inequality of arms with the 14 defendants present in court and respect the rights of defense “, a hundred lawyers representing two thirds of the nearly 2,400 civil parties agreed to “ to coordinate their words.
They will plead for the community for the victims rather than for their respective clients, about twenty minutes each. Every day, before the pleadings, lawyers will say a word of tribute for deceased victims.