(Radio France) A short week of sharp contrasts at the Paris special criminal court where the trial is taking place of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital.
With the 11 November national holiday, and the court closed on 12 November to mark the sixth anniversary of the Paris attacks, there were only two days of hearings this week. The atmosphere could hardly have been more different on each of those days.
On Tuesday, two anonymous police investigators shared a closed circuit television link to give the court an overview of the history of Islamic jihad.
By Wednesday, it was the turn of Francois Hollande, president of the French republic at the time of the attacks, to appear in person and explain his own experience of the terrible night, and also to justify the decisions made by his administration, before and after the tragic events.
