Trial of the 2015 attacks: civil party lawyers pound the attitude of the accused
The Paris court, on September 2, 2020, at the opening of the trial for the January 2015 attacks. The trial resumed on December 2 after a month of suspension.
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Continuation of the pleadings of the civil parties at the trial of the January 2015 attacks. Among the fifteen lawyers who pleaded this Thursday afternoon, the court heard several representatives of survivors and relatives of victims of the Hyper Cacher.
Starting with Maître Elie Korchia, lawyer for the two supermarket cashiers and Maître Laurence Cechman, counsel for the families of two of the four victims of Amedy Coulibaly.
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"
You are the two things I hate the most, Jews and French.
"
If a sentence were to sum up all the hatred of
Coulibaly
, it would be this one, reported by Zarie, she who lived with her friend Andréa, 4 hours and 4 minutes of hell as close as possible to the murderer
", begins Master Korchia.
Two young women, points out the lawyer, who represent two faces of suffering: Andréa, walled in silence, and Zarie, who came to tell the truth of the horror, for both of them and for the dead.
Zarie also came to remind, he says, that "
this trial is that of the anti-Semitism which killed on our soil
", an anti-Semitism which crosses the ages.
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See also: Trial of the January 2015 attacks: the distress of the victims of the Hyper Cacher
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It's always the same thing: death to the Jews, dirty Jews,
" insists Laurence Cechman in his wake.
"
Why?
But there is no answer.
It is hatred, it cannot be explained, it is there, endures, mutates, creeps in everywhere,
”she emphasizes.
Then the two lawyers to approach the responsibility of the defendants "
close, indebted or in business with Coulibaly, they form this circle of confidence without which there is neither preparation nor commission of attack
", with
Ali Riza Polat
"
in pivot
»Affirms Master Lorchia.
"
You, gentlemen, are at the origin of all this pain
", apostrophes her colleague, "
Precocious Alzheimer's, lightning blindness, nothing came of you gentlemen, Coulibaly was not radicalized?
We have reached the tartuferie
", launches the lawyer to them, before concluding with a wish to the court"
that your verdict is the builder of a supposedly impossible path to eradicate this jihadist Islam, and in the name of the French people, that you restore the principles of our democracy, where every Jew has his place.
"
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