Trial of the January 2015 attacks: end of the pleadings of the lawyers of the civil parties
Sketch of hearing showing one of the lawyers of "Charlie Hebdo" Richard Malka at the Special Assize Court of Paris, this Friday, December 4, 2020, AFP - BENOIT PEYRUCQ
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Fifth and last day of pleadings at the trial of the January 2015 attacks. The trial was interrupted for a month due to cases of coronavirus detected in defendants.
During these pleadings, the court heard in particular Marie-Laure Barré and Nathalie Senyk.
With emotion, the lawyers of most of the survivors and relatives of the victims of the "Charlie Hebdo" attack took the floor to evoke the memory of the disappeared and the moving testimonies of those who survived them.
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With our special correspondent at the Special Assize Court of Paris,
Laura Martel
Nathalie Senyk begins her plea by taking us back to the first days of the trial.
This chilling vision on the big screen, she recalls, “
of friendly bodies
, entangled in the newsroom, the very heart of reflection and creation.
They will never leave each other again.
Linked by friendship, a vision of the world.
Bound by Charlie,
”she breathes.
"
Two shadows have mixed ink and blood
", continues Me Senyk, who then evokes with emotion those fallen under the bullets of these shadows: Cabu, laughter par excellence, Charb political humor, Franck Brinsolaro, the devoted policeman , Elsa Cayat, the exuberant intelligence and all the others.
Murdered, points out her colleague "
because laughter is dangerous, it is sociability, it leads to reflection
".
Me Senyk speaks of the unbearable pain of the relatives of the victims, the survivors too: Coco, Simon Fieschi and his body destroyed by a Kalashnikov bullet but present every day at the hearing, just like Riss, who since the beginning of his pleading seems to have stopped breathing, head in hands.
Civil parties, points out Marie-Laure Barré, came to this trial "
without hatred or a spirit of revenge with only a need for justice, to understand
" what the defendants refused to them.
"
We were entitled to everything to get around the obvious: insults, threats and permanent diversions at insane volume, as if they wanted to force their coarse lies to return
", denounces the lawyer.
With a vibrant voice, Me Senyk concludes: “
The free man is the one who is not afraid to go through with his thoughts.
Free, to
Charlie
, they were, and all are.
"
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To read also: Trial of the 2015 attacks: the lawyers for the civil parties pound the attitude of the accused
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