(Radio France) Friday’s session at the Special Criminal Court, where the Paris terror trial is taking place, continued to hear testimonies of the families of victims. They were followed at the bar by families who lost their homes and belongings in the police raid on the terrorist hide-out in Paris-Saint-Denis, days after the attacks, and who also claim the status of victims.
This was the last, long day of testimony from the bereaved.
We heard a man lament his lost brother, “a beautiful person,” dead in the Bataclan.
A mother spoke on behalf of her son, an injured survivor “who will never be the same.”
The language of struggle, the inability to sleep, to relax, the fear of public places, of large gatherings, the panic attacks, each survivor has the same story. And each story is different.
