(Radio France) French prosecutors have called for the trial of 14 people over the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist in 2020. Two adults face the charge of complicity in a terrorist murder. Six other adults and six minors […]
(Radio France) Frenchman Jonathan Geffroy is accused of terrorist offences in Syria, as are his wife and mother. [Geffroy] has provided valuable information for French anti-terrorism investigators. Geffroy, 40, sits alone in the prisoner’s box at the Paris Special Criminal Court. His […]
(Radio France) As ceremonies continue on Monday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of secondary schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the French daily newspapers look back on a weekend of memorial events marked by sadness and dignity. Samuel Paty, teacher of history and […]
(Radio France) In the first week of witness testimony, the Paris special criminal court was shaken by the emotion of a family mourning the loss of 13-year-old Laura, one of the 86 victims killed in the 2016 Nice truck attack. Laura’s twin […]
(Radio France) This week, the Nice terror trial has started hearing the testimonies of the civil plaintiffs, those who were bereaved or injured or traumatised when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in 2016, killing 86 people, […]
(Radio France) The first week of the trial of eight people accused in connection with the Bastille Day massacre in the southern French city of Nice in 2016 has been marked by absences. The perpetrator was shot dead by security forces at […]
(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 […]
(Radio France) On Friday, closing statements in the Paris attacks trial came to an end with pleas from the two lawyers representing Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist group which caused the deaths of 132 people in the November 2015 […]
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam is the sole surviving member of the terrorist group that attacked venues in or near Paris on 13 November 2015. On Friday his defence team, Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, will attempt to save him from spending the […]
(Radio France) Sofien Ayari is not an easy man to defend. He fought in the ranks of Islamic State in Syria, he was involved in a shootout with Belgian police, he has generally refused to speak at this trial. On Wednesday, Ayari’s […]
(Radio France) According to his lawyers, Ali El Haddad Asufi is before the court only because Belgian police investigators failed to do their job properly. Notably on the question of who supplied the weapons used by the November 2015 terrorist killers. The […]
(Radio France) Farid Kharkhach admits providing some of the false documents used by the Paris attacks killers. That crime is punishable by 20 years in jail; the prosecution wants Kharkhach to serve six. On Thursday, before an almost empty court, his young […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the special criminal court trying Paris attacks suspects got into the red zone, with final presentations from the defence lawyers representing Muhammad Usman and Adel Haddadi. They are would-be terrorists who admit they were part of the Islamic […]
(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 […]
(Radio France) After ten days of heart-rending reminders of horror from the legal teams representing the victims, followed by last week’s demands for punishment from the prosecution, on Monday the Paris attacks trial moved into a different emotional realm with the first […]
(Radio France) This has been a special week at the November 2015 terror trial, as the three state prosecutors prepared the ground for their demands for punishment, delivered on Friday. The French newspapers have been united in their praise of the prosecution […]
(Radio France) At the Paris attacks trial, the three co-prosecutors continued their summary of the evidence they believe is more than sufficient to see each of the accused suffer the harshest penalties permitted by law. They are relentless. Camille Hennetier, Nicolas Braconnay […]
(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 […]
(Radio France) This has been a difficult week at the Special Criminal Court, where the men suspected of involvement or complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried. The hearings have been devoted to the final observations from lawyers representing […]
(Radio France) Lawyers for the victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks are continuing their concluding remarks. The Special Criminal Court is a theatre of contradiction, with the black robes offering everything from flamboyant rhetoric to dignified common sense. The 14 accused […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Special Criminal Court where the Paris terror trial is taking place listened to the closing arguments of lawyers representing the survivors and the families of victims, and those who chose not to join the collective presentation organised […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s hearing at the Special Criminal Court was delayed for several hours because nine of the eleven prisoners accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks refused to take their places in the glass security enclosure. They were […]
(Radio France) The past week at the Paris terror trial has been devoted to the summing-up by the lawyers who represent hundreds of “parties civiles,” the families of the injured survivors, and those who lost loved ones in the November 2015 attacks. […]
(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. […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial, where 20 men are being judged on charges of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist killings, continues with concluding pleas from the lawyers representing the injured and those who lost family members. There are nearly 2,500 […]
(Radio France) Friday’s session at the Special Criminal Court, where the Paris terror trial is taking place, continued to hear testimonies of the families of victims. They were followed at the bar by families who lost their homes and belongings in the […]
(Radio France) This has been a particularly difficult week at the Paris terror trial, where the survivor[s] of the Bataclan attack and the families of victims have come to give their version of 13 November 2015. There have been tears and courage. […]
(Radio France) Another day of evidence from those who escaped the Bataclan massacre. The Paris attacks trial heard the continuing litany of shock, suffering and guilt. With merciful moments of courage, generosity and hope. It is not easy to stand in a […]
(Radio France) This week, the Paris attacks trial will hear the testimonies of 70 victims and their families. If the tragic facts remain the same, the individual experiences of the night of 13 November 2015, and of life since, are unique. One […]
(Radio France) The end of this extraordinary judicial process is now in sight. After eight months of evidence, explanation and questions, the court trying 14 men suspected of various levels of complicity in the November 2015 attacks will now listen to the […]
(Radio France) On Thursday, the Paris special criminal court continued the psychiatric profiling of the 14 men being tried on suspicion of various levels of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. The spotlight fell, once again, on […]
(Radio France) This week’s hearings at the special criminal court in Paris are devoted to the psychiatric and psychological profiles of the 14 suspects. On Wednesday, four experts presented their findings on six of the accused. No one was particularly surprised. Mediocrity […]
(Radio France) This week’s hearings were the last chance for the 14 men accused in connection with the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks to give their version of events. Some spoke, some chose the silence to which they are unconditionally entitled under […]
(Radio France) For the second day at the Paris attacks trial, evidence from surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam dominated proceedings. Less sure of himself on Thursday, in the face of relentless questioning, Abdeslam finally asked for forgiveness and a second chance. That provoked […]
(Radio France) Surviving Paris attacks terrorist Salah Abdeslam on Wednesday surprised the special criminal court in Paris by agreeing to answer questions about his specific mission on 13 November 2015. While zones of doubt and mystery remain, Abdeslam did provide new information […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with the interrogation of Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou, the two men who admit driving to Paris on the morning after the 13 November 2015 killings to bring surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam back […]
(Radio France) On Friday the Paris special criminal court, where those suspected of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried, heard evidence from a remarkable woman who saved many lives, at the cost of her own identity. A blurred […]
(Radio France) Two witnesses appeared on Thursday at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. Both the Belgian investigating […]
(Radio France) After last week’s striking reconstitution in sounds and images of the Bataclan massacre, the Paris special criminal court has moved on to consider the post-attack activities of the sole surviving perpetrator and his alleged accomplices. This week’s hearings have focused […]
(Radio France) What did it sound like in the Bataclan concert hall when three terrorists machine-gunned the crowd at a rock concert on 13 November 2015? And what did it look like once the injured had been taken out, leaving only those […]
(Radio France) Thursday’s hearing before the special criminal court, where the men suspected of complicity in the November 2015 Paris attacks are being tried, was again marked by the refusal of several of the accused to answer questions. Mohammed Amri spoke, once again […]
(Radio France) Wednesday was eagerly anticipated as a crucial day at the Paris attacks trial. Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the suicide killers who murdered 130 people on the night of 13 November 2015, was to give his version of what […]
(Radio France) On Tuesday, the Paris attacks trial focused on the case of Mohamed Abrini, one of the passengers in the three-car “convoy of death” which brought the killers to Paris on 12 November 2015. At the last moment, Abrini decided that […]
(Radio France) At the special criminal court in Paris, where those suspected of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried, police on Thursday described the hours leading up to the atrocities that cost 131 people their lives. There were […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s hearing at the Paris terror trial was devoted to the content of a computer found in a bin in Brussels. According to the Belgian police investigator who presented the evidence, it is clear that the November 2015 attacks were […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court brought an end to the questioning of the accused on their alleged roles in the preparation of the November 2015 terrorist attacks. There were two witnesses, Mohamed Abrini and Mohammed Bakkali. One talked […]
(Radio France) Thursday’s session of the Paris terror trial, the 94th day of a legal marathon which is likely to last at least another three months, was overshadowed by the decision of two of the accused … Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari […]
(Radio France) The terrorist survivor of the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam resumed his evidence late on Wednesday, after the court had heard and dismissed claims of prejudice from some of the defence lawyers. It was as if Tuesday’s mass walk-out by the […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris ended abruptly when the fifty lawyers defending those accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks left the courtroom en masse. They were protesting against “an atmosphere unfavourable to their […]
(Radio France) On Thursday, the accused Ali El Haddad Asufi was questioned by the special criminal court about his possible involvement in helping the November 2015 Paris killers to obtain the Kalashnikov machine guns used in the attacks. Asufi admits that he […]
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