(Radio France) The second week of the Paris trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killing of 130 people brought us from the legal technicalities of the crimes allegedly committed to the stark humanity of the dead, the dying and the terribly injured.
A week is a long time in criminal justice.
Five days which began with the reading of the final pages of the court president’s monumental 10-hour summary of the case ended with 22 seconds of sound recorded at the Bataclan as the attack which killed 90 people began.
“An infinity,” said the police officer who played the short sound segment.
Time, as those who continue to suffer the consequences of that night six years ago tragically know, is treacherously flexible.
