(Radio France) France’s November 2015 terror trial continued on Wednesday with further final pleas from the legal teams representing the survivors and families of victims.
Every day this week, the procedure at the special criminal court in Paris has been the same. One by one, the black-robed lawyers approach the bar, each reading or declaiming a brief memorial to a single victim. A human life reduced to five or six sentences. It takes one minute.
With the lights dimmed to facilitate the projection of photos of the deceased on the giant screen behind the judges, the courtroom looks and feels like a cathedral.
It is solemn and sad.
