The trial of the January 2015 attacks in Paris suspended for an additional week
Lawyers during the first day of the trial of the January 2015 attacks, September 2, 2020. REUTERS / Charles Platiau
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The trial of the January 2015 attacks has been on hold for three weeks for health reasons, it was suspended this Monday for one more week.
The main defendant is sick with Covid-19 - he has symptoms of it - and the use of videoconferencing has been excluded.
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With our special correspondent at the courthouse,
Laura Martel
The court therefore decided to extend the suspension for a week to give Ali Riza Polat the opportunity to recover, since the last medical expertise carried out on Sunday makes it possible to consider the disappearance of his symptoms within 4 to 5 days.
A decision in accordance with the request of the defense lawyers as civil parties, who this Monday morning succeeded to reject the use of videoconference.
"
You plan to leave an accused in the dungeon in front of his screen
", exclaimed Me Coutant-Peyre, lawyer
Ali Riza Polat
, who sees in this order an interference of the executive power and above all, a serious infringement of rights. of the defense.
"
Nothing is more detrimental to the rule of law than a rule change in the middle of a trial,
" added Me Comte, on the civil parties side, before launching: "
Your trial must be historic but cannot be part of history as the coffin of a number of rights.
"
As for Richard Malka, he recalled that "
judging an accused not present at the assizes would be a first
", with the risk of "
making Mr. Polat a victim
" "
and I refuse
" insisted the lawyer of
Charlie Hedbo
.
Black dresses satisfied, therefore, by the decision of the court especially as it will also allow to take into account the decision of the Council of State, which must rule by Friday on the validity of the order.
It is inconceivable that a procedure before the Assize Court, which is based on oral debates, takes place behind a screen that takes you away from everything, from the feeling that one can have of what a man lives, reacts and hears what the prosecution has to say against him, and also what the civil parties have to say ...
Me Marie-Laure Barré, lawyer for several victims of the attack against "Charlie Hedbo"
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