At the trial of the Nice attack, after three months of hearing, the floor is with the accusation. The prosecution intends to detail the responsibilities it attributes to each of the eight accused. The driver of the truck that killed 86 and injured hundreds was shot dead by police. None of the defendants is accused of complicity; three are being prosecuted for criminal association with terrorism. The prosecution dedicated the first part of its indictment to the victims.
With our special correspondent at the hearing, Laura Martel
” There will be no quotation, no setback: the horror is such that it imposes sobriety “Begins Advocate General Alexa Dubourg – one of the three representatives of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) -, who addresses ” heart to heart ” his “ infinite compassion for the victims, all the victims, she underlines.
” Those who are no longer there to hear it », those who came to testify to « their unfathomable suffering » or whose « the cries, in Nice, resounded as far as Paris “she continues, like those who have” preferred to stay away from the courtroom “.
The Advocate General relies on the heartbreaking testimonies heard, evokes this “ powerless time to soothe trauma », « mourning often impossible “, particularly in the face of this” unbearable peculiarity of the Nice attack, fifteen children dead, hundreds affected.
If the magistrate refuses to return to a point raised so many times by the civil parties, the controversy over the security measures on the evening of the tragedy, the subject of an investigation still in progress, she tackles another problem frontally: autopsies and samples organ mass performed by the forensic institute of Nice on certain victims.
Beyond ” overzealousness “, which had recognized François Molins, former prosecutor of Paris, the general counsel deplores a “ terrible failure », « a bad decision ” who has ” added pain to pain “.
” Obviously, we failed on the subject of information to families, yes, it is unbearable “Admits Alexa Dubourg. ” On behalf of our institution, we sincerely apologize “, she insists, aware of the” breach of trust » that it could have induced.
” Even if it won’t fix anything “, she concludes, “ we have now reviewed our protocols to prevent it from happening again.
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