(Radio France) The court has already received requests to testify from more than 350 civil witnesses. These are the people who were affected by the November 2015 killings, either directly or because family members and friends were killed or injured in the attacks. Each has been telling the court their version of the night of 13 November 2015. The basic facts are the same. The stories are all different.
After the opening weeks of this trial, with their succession of police and judicial investigators, ballistics, explosives and medical specialists, we felt we knew more than we would ever need to know about shock waves, blast zones, high-velocity ammunition, body parts, wounds, traumatic injury, terrorism and death. We were wrong.
We didn’t know that one man lost his life in the first explosion at the Stade de France because he chose to phone his wife rather than watch the match between France and Germany.
