(Radio France) On Tuesday, defence council Xavier Nogueras used the language of the accused against the language of the court. It was a remarkable performance.
Xavier Nogueras is the superstar of the defence benches.
He is flamboyant, instantly identifiable by his prematurely grey hair, his [penetrating] blue eyes. He is clearly at home in the special criminal court where, for the past decade, he has made a name for himself, defending clients whom nobody else would touch, sometimes with remarkable success.
He is intelligent, masterful, at ease and, occasionally, very funny.
He was helped enormously on Tuesday by the patient work of his co-defender, Negar Haeri, whose presentation of the facts cleared the way for her colleague’s impressionism.
