Bombs, bodies and Islamic State propaganda shock Paris terror trial

(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in Paris came to an end with three very different reports from expert witnesses. The themes were DNA, explosions and Islamic State propaganda.

A police officer showed the court how to make a bomb.

It’s not difficult, all the ingredients and equipment are easily available. “Anyone can do it,” the tribunal was told. That information was greeted with nervous laughter.

It is extremely risky. So risky, in fact, that the experts at the French police explosives lab have done very little research into TATP or triacetone triperoxide, the explosive used by the November 2015 killers. It is simply too dangerous.

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