It was 8:10 p.m. in Paris last night when the reading of the verdict of the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France began in the specially composed Court of Assizes, marking the epilogue of an extraordinary trial which will have lasted nine months. The most anticipated sentence was pronounced against Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commando, who was sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment, an extremely rare sanction pronounced until then only four times.
What should we learn from this trial? How can justice appease the families of victims? What lessons for future mass killing trials?
With :
Philippe Duperron, president of theassociation 13eleven15 and father of Thomas, who died at the Bataclan
Sharon Weilllecturer in international law at theAmerican University of Parisassociate researcher at CERI, Political science
Master Pierre Henry Boviscriminal lawyer at the Paris Bar