Gwladys Laffitte, with Europe 1 and AFP 5:47 p.m., September 16, 2021

Thursday was devoted to the statements of investigators from the criminal brigade, intervening at the crime scenes around the Stade de France and on the terraces, November 13, 2015. Moved, the police worked to describe as precisely as possible the horror of that macabre night.

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On the seventh day of the trial for the November 13 attacks, Thursday, investigators from the criminal squad took the stand to discuss the findings made at the various crime scenes that evening.

Their emotion was palpable as they evoked the crime scenes around the Stade de France and on the terraces of Carillon and Petit Cambodge in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

Manuel Colaço Dias, first victim of the attacks

First there are the attacks around the Stade de France, which occurred first in this macabre timeline.

The first victim of the attacks which sowed terror in Saint-Denis and Paris until the end of that murderous night was Manuel Colaço Dias, 63, a Portuguese bus driver who came to drop off supporters who were going to attend the football match. France-Germany.

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No less than eleven nuts, projected by the explosive belt of the suicide bomber, will be taken from his body.

"A nut was at the level of the lung," said the former group leader of the anti-terrorist section of the Paris Criminal Brigade, in a silent courtroom.

Manuel Colaço Dias is quickly identified.

"The victim was carrying a wedding ring, with an engraving inside," says the investigator, who recounts in an almost clinical way the findings made on the spot.

Knotted throat, tight jaw

A few kilometers away, a terraces investigator himself participated in the findings in the 10th arrondissement.

With his throat tied, he first explained that despite the experience, he and his colleagues were flabbergasted.

They must have taken a moment, on the spot, to "put their emotions aside".

They did not work on a crime scene, but on a "war scene," he said nearly six years later.

To demonstrate this, the investigator displayed on a screen photos of the place, dotted with numbered yellow easels, with each letter, a victim.

He names thirteen, jaw clenched: it is he who identified them.

"They were interrupted in their festive activity," he describes.

"Look, there are still bowls there, people were seated." 

The killing of the Bataclan evoked on Friday

The room holds its breath, confronted with the interior of Little Cambodia, stained with blood.

On the windows, holes of several centimeters: four magazines were emptied here, 121 cartridges fired, in the space of two and a half minutes.

Investigators will discuss the killing of the Bataclan on Friday.

Videos and audio tapes should be shown at the hearing.

Thursday, only about fifty civil parties were present in the courtroom.

One hundred and thirty people had been killed and more than 350 injured during the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis.