(Radio France) The November 2015 Paris attacks trial took another crucial step towards judgement on Wednesday with the beginning of the final presentation of the case by the prosecution. On Friday, the three co-prosecutors will demand the sentences they believe each of the accused deserves.
“This is where we put the pieces of the puzzle together. We are motivated by impartiality and objectivity.” With those words, senior state prosecutor Camille Hennetier launched the latest phase of the Paris terror trial.
Hennetier makes it sound straightforward. But this puzzle has more than one [million] pieces of evidence. And many of them can be turned in different directions, even given different significance, depending on whose turn it is to handle them. Impartiality is a question of point of view.