(Radio France) The fifth week of the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of involvement in the November 2015 attacks was marked by the start of hearings of the evidence from survivors of the Bataclan, the concert venue where 90 of the 130 victims died.
Six years is a short time on the scale of human grief. The visible wounds have healed, but people are still crying, still broken, still terribly hurt.
Heroism and self-sacrifice
The five weeks of the trial so far have occasionally been illuminated by accounts of heroism, of self-sacrifice. There have even been moments of humour.
But the predominant tone is a mixture of profound grief, guilt and incomprehension.
