(Radio France) Two witnesses appeared on Thursday at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. Both the Belgian investigating judge, Isabelle Panou, and an anonymous French anti-terrorist police officer were called by the legal teams defending the accused.
Thursday was a disaster for the defence.
The lawyers representing several of the accused — notably Mohamed Abrini, Salah Abdeslam, Farid Kharkhach, Yassine Atar and Ali Oulkadi — saw the images of their clients, carefully constructed over the past seven months, swept away by the torrent of indignation and astonishment expressed by Isabelle Panou.
