(Radio France) This was another week of televised testimony from Belgian police investigators, with five of the accused still refusing to leave their cells in protest at the fact that the witnesses from Brussels are being allowed to testify anonymously. And then there was the question of what had become of the courtroom artists.
It took me a while to figure out what had changed.
The missing prisoners have made a big difference, of course. Five absent accused means there are 15 fewer people in the glass box which dominates the left-hand side of the business end of the special criminal court.
Each of the absent is normally accompanied by two police escorts. They leave a lot of empty space behind them.
But that wasn’t the only difference.
