(Radio France) After two and a half days of legal technicalities, the real business of the Paris November 2015 terror trial got under way on Friday with the reading of the court president’s report — a detailed and lengthy chronology of the crimes committed, and of the forensic effort to find those responsible for planning and financing the attacks. The emotional impact was devastating.
The report by Jean-Louis Périès into the criminal events recorded in Paris on 13 November 2015 took more than eight hours to read. And it’s not finished yet.
This is an essential part of French criminal justice. The 14 accused are not before the court by chance. They are there because five years of intense police investigation in both France and Belgium have made it clear that they have questions to answer.
