(Radio France) The director of the investigation into the Belgian links to the November 2015 Paris attacks told the court on Tuesday that it was “the toughest case” she had ever worked on. She also praised the exceptional collaboration between France and Belgium to track down the killers.
“The events took place in Paris, but grief is no respecter of national boundaries,” Isabelle Panou said.
The contrast was striking.
After the almost robotic performance of the anonymous French police witness, SDAT 99, on Monday, Belgian terrorism specialist Isabelle Panou brought emotion and humanity to her presentation of the five-year effort by police in Brussels to unravel the complex international web of links and complicities which led to, and away from, the Paris killings.
