(Radio France) Friday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks, heard the anger and grief of the survivors and their families expressed in different accents, and in English.
With chilling simplicity, a mother summarised her existence since the death of her 24-year-old daughter at the Bataclan: “My life is pain,” she said.
The theme is recurrent in the tragic sequence of victim testimonies. For those who survived, for those who lost wives, husbands, children and friends, life since the night of 13 November 2015 has been a waking nightmare.
Another mother said she refused to break down, out of respect for her dead child “who would not have wanted that.”
