(Radio France) On Wednesday, the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks heard from a police investigator, from a DNA expert, and from a friend of several of the accused. The evidence was frequently intimidating, not to say incomprehensible.
The forensic analysis of DNA is a remarkable business.
DNA evidence
Wednesday’s expert witness, Professor Dieter Deforce, stated that, given an uncontaminated sample of human DNA, he could categorically identify one individual from the current global population of 8 billion, unless the individual in question had an identical twin.
DNA is the genetic code we carry in our cells, unique to each one of us. It is at least as distinctive as our fingerprints.
