After a month of suspension, the trial of the January 2015 attacks resumed on Wednesday, December 2.

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  • Ali Riza Polat, one of the fourteen accused in this trial, had tested positive for Covid-19 on October 31 and his degraded state of health had justified the suspension of this historic trial.

  • A medical expertise and several examinations concluded that his condition had improved, thus pushing the president of the Assize Court to resume the proceedings on Wednesday.

  • Refusing to take anti-emetic treatment, the accused who incurs the heaviest penalty in this case, however disrupted the progress of the first pleadings of the civil parties.

At the special assize court in Paris,

Ali Riza Polat made his return to the box of the accused at the trial of the January 2015 attacks. A thunderous return, in accordance with the attitude adopted since the beginning of the hearing by the one who today incurs the heaviest sentence in this folder.

After a month of suspension - unprecedented in an assize trial - linked to the degraded state of health of the main defendant infected by the coronavirus, the hearing was finally able to resume on Wednesday.

Relying on the medical expertise carried out in recent weeks, the president of the special assize court, Régis de Jorna, relaunched this historic trial that began more than three months ago.

But refusing to take the drug treatment recommended by the doctor who examined him, Ali Riza Polat repeatedly interrupted the pleadings of the civil party's counsel, arousing the anger of Régis de Jorna and the exasperation of the lawyers.

Imaginary sick "

Before giving the floor to the victims' councils, the president wanted to clarify the elements aimed at Ali Riza Polat.

Suffering for weeks from vomiting, the man prosecuted for "complicity in terrorist assassinations" was deemed "suitable" to attend the end of the trial, said the magistrate.

Treatment with Primperan, a classic anti-emetic, was recommended by this caregiver but refused by the accused.

"He explained that he did not want to serve as a guinea pig," said the president of the court who agreed, in agreement with Riza Polat's lawyer, to allow his client to leave the room when he wished, including during oral argument.

But this agreement was not considered sufficient by the defense, which insisted at the start of the hearing that the accused be "properly examined in a hospital setting".

A position which has quite irritated certain lawyers of the civil party and the magistrates of the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor's Office.

“His vomiting, as the expert indicates, has no pathological support.

They are probably caused by the patient and I believe that we are in the simulation (…) it is the imaginary patient!

“, Criticized lawyer Mehana Mouhou, pointing out that Ali Riza Polat had been taken care of at Cochin hospital to undergo a battery of examinations.

More nuanced, General Counsel Julie Holveck, recalled that if the refusal of treatment was a right for the accused, this "choice" should not alone determine the resumption of the proceedings: "This hearing must resume its normal course. », She insisted.

"If you intervene, I'll kick you out!"

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But from the first pleadings of the morning, Ali Riza Polat showed signs of weakness and nervousness.

"All I ask is to go to the hospital!"

“, He launched from the box, interrupting the lawyer of Michel Catalano, the boss of the printing house in Dammartin-en-Goële, taken hostage by the Kouachi.

Me Casubolo-Ferro, Lilian's lawyer, an employee of the printing press, is interrupted during his pleadings.

"I threw up bile!"

shouts Ali Riza Polat, who shouts in the box.

The president is inflexible, asks him to calm down on pain of expelling him # AttentatsJanvier2015

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Party under escort for a few minutes during the pleadings of Mr. Casubolo-Ferro, he once again cut the thread of the debates shouting at the address of the president: "I have just vomited bile!

".

Remained throughout the trial relatively indifferent to the vituperations of the accused, the magistrate Régis de Jorna firmly reframed the thirty-something: "If you intervene again while a lawyer pleads, I expel you, it is clear, it" is clear!

".

A threat finally implemented at the end of the afternoon after yet another outburst of voice from the accused.

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After these incidents, the lawyers of the many victims of the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly were able to make their clients' voices heard one last time.

Many said their "disappointments", pointed to the "unanswered questions" and the "mismanagement of lies" of the accused huddled behind their masks.

Scheduled for three days, the pleadings of the civil parties will end on Friday with the lawyers of the victims of the attack against 

Charlie Hebdo

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If the trial manages to go smoothly by then, the verdict is expected to be delivered on December 16.

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