News cookies devotes a 3rd episode to the trial of 13-November. The time will soon be for the pleadings of the lawyers for the civil party and the defense as well as for the requisitions of the national anti-terrorist prosecution. The verdict of the special assize court in Paris is expected on June 29. Nathanaël Vittrant, journalist in charge of justice at RFI, looks back on the highlights of the past three months.
In this episode of News cookiesNathanael Vittrantlooks back on several strong sequences of this trial.
First of all, the broadcasting of sound extracts from the Bataclan attack. Recordings made by one of the victims who attended the concert of the rock group Eagles of Death Metal that evening. These broadcasts took place at the request of the victims’ association Life for Paris.
The explanations of Salah Abdeslam, the main defendant in this trial, the only surviving member of the attack commando, have also been a highlight of recent months. ” Finally, he told everything, he politely answered the questions of the court. He explained that he should not have taken part in the attacks of November 13 and that he let himself be convinced at the last minute. He was supposed to blow himself up in a bar in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, but seeing all these young people at the table, he gave up “.
We will also remember the tears of Salah Abdeslam: “ While at the start of the trial, he introduced himself saying that he was indeed an IS jihadist fighter, that it was his profession, he asked the victims for forgiveness, asking them to hate him in moderation. “. A pardon variously appreciated by the civil parties: “ There are those who think that it is a defense strategy, that Salah Abdeslam is only the parrot of his lawyer. Others are annoyed by this reversal of the situation while throughout the trial, he multiplied the provocations vis-à-vis the victims. One of them summed up the general feeling for me by saying: “forgiveness, we must not exaggerate, we are still not ready to go have a drink with him“”.
On April 21, 2022, the Paris Special Assize Court also heard the psychiatrists who appraised Salah Abdeslam. ” Doctor Daniel Zagury immediately set the scene by explaining “that to listen to Salah Abdeslam is to be confronted with the banality of evil” “.
Nathanaël Vittrant also returns to the testimony of the civil parties. The special assize court of Paris heard those who had not been able or wanted to speak at the start of the trial. “ A firefighter marked us a lot. He intervened on the evening of November 13 because he was already there for an ordinary fall in a supermarket, their truck was parked just in front of two of the cafes that were targeted. He recounted his intervention, but especially the aftermath, which he describes as a descent into hell. It took him a very long time to understand that he was both a responder and a victim. “.
The pleadings of the civil parties must begin on May 23. They will be followed by the indictment and the defense pleadings. The verdict is expected on June 29, 2022.
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