(Radio France) The man who drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice in 2016, killing 86 people, injuring hundreds of others, is himself dead, shot by security forces at the scene. The eight accused in this trial are suspected of relatively low levels of complicity. Few bereaved families have made the trip to Paris.
The Nice trial is being held in the central Paris courtroom specially built to accommodate the so-called Bataclan hearings, the trial of twenty men involved in the planning and perpetration of the November 2015 Paris massacres which cost 132 people their lives.
If the physical surroundings and the security precautions are identical to those in place for the earlier trial, the atmosphere at the start of this Nice hearing could hardly be more different.
