Gwladys Laffitte, edited by Nathanaël Bentura 06:43, March 29, 2022
As the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 begins its 100th day of hearings, Europe 1 met Bahareh, survivor of the Carillon and civil party to the trial.
Every day, she delivers a report of the hearing, in drawing and with humor, on Twitter.
For her, drawing is like therapy.
TESTIMONY
It has already been more than 6 months since the Court of Assizes specially composed of Paris judges 20 people for the attacks of November 13, 2015, in Paris and Saint-Denis.
The coming week is crucial, because the defendants will be questioned about what they did in the last days preceding the attacks, and the very evening of the events.
Precisely, since the beginning of the interrogations, a young woman, survivor of the bar attacked the Carillon, in the 10th arrondissement, a civil party to the trial, has made her reports in drawings.
Bahareh publishes them every evening on his Twitter account.
99th day of #trial13november.
Abdellah Chouaa's interrogation pic.twitter.com/bwVNorO2Rj
— Babou (@Baboobabounette) March 25, 2022
She seizes the codes of the manga
At 38, this consultant is not a professional designer, yet every day, she represents perfectly, in her own way, all the actors in the trial.
"I put the defendant in the center of the board, and all around, that's what happened at the hearing. It's a bit like this manga idea, but to draw the lawyers, I'm went in a little more natural features. Then with funny little men, passing birds…. There are a lot of manga codes”, she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Mohamed Abrini is the first to have been sketched, during his first interrogation on the merits, in January.
"He's a very talkative defendant. On this board, we also have Averell Dalton because I learned off the record that the magistrates called him Averell (laughs). I also like to put little anecdotes like that, that I heard", explains Bahareh, who found through his drawings a way to express himself.
"We, the civil parties, are silent actors, we know it. But hey, I don't know how to be silent so I needed to externalize that."
Credit: @Baboobabounette
"It's a kind of therapy"
The tone is sometimes quirky, often funny, sometimes sarcastic, but the remarks reported are never truncated, for a simple reason: "We are judging very serious things, and at the same time, we laugh. Sometimes the lawyers generals make jokes, the president makes jokes… And this absurd side is life!”
Bahareh said.
"It's a way to bring people into the courts, to show them the humanity, the absurdity, and the work that judges and lawyers do."
For the consultant, drawing this trial helps her understand what happened to her on November 13, it also allows her to react publicly to what she hears at the hearing.
"It's also a way of taking a step back, of not remaining only in emotion, because to understand what is happening, what is being played out, I think you have to take some distance too, and the "humor is what it's for. It's a kind of therapy, it allows you to intellectualize what is happening, to go through reflection, and this approach, in reconstruction, is very important to me", she added.
Once the November 13 trial is over, Bahareh does not hesitate to continue his drawings to make the work of justice understood, why not in other courtrooms: "It's a way of bringing the people in the courts, to show them the humanity, the absurdity, and the work that judges and lawyers do."
Credit: @Baboobabounette