(Radio France) There was yet another dramatic shift in the emotional temperature at the Paris attacks trial on Tuesday, as two anonymous and invisible police investigators gave lectures on the history of Islamic holy war and the Syrian context of the 2015 massacres in the French capital.
It was like being back in university. The silent ranks of journalists tapped or scribbled their notes as two successive disembodied voices related the history of Islamic jihad from the year 750 to 2015.
The two witnesses, identified as 565SI and 562SI, are high-ranking officers in the police anti-terrorist intelligence structure, and their lives are at risk. Hence the need for anonymity.
Their testimony was relayed to the courtroom by video link, but all we saw of either man was a vague shadow. Their voices were clear.
