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Never has a trial lasted so long since the Second World War.

For nearly ten months, the fourteen defendants present, including the only survivor of the commandos of the November 13 attacks, Salah Abdeslam, appeared every day in Paris.

Judged by professional magistrates, they will be fixed on their fate this Wednesday, June 29 at the end of the afternoon.

Referred to the Assize Court for their links to varying degrees with the terrorist cell of Daesh at the origin of the attacks, they incur mostly sentences of 20 years' imprisonment or life imprisonment.

Answers despite the silence

After more than 140 days of debates, marked by the moving testimonies of the survivors and relatives of the victims who died in Paris or Saint-Denis, the long-awaited verdict will put an end to this extraordinary and historic trial.

In a room specially created for the occasion, hundreds of witnesses, experts, investigators, magistrates came to relate the genesis, the preparation and the unfolding of these attacks which killed 132 people (two survivors committed suicide after the fact).

Disrupted on several occasions by the Covid-19 epidemic, the trial also shed light on the relationship between the defendants and the functioning of the jihadist cell.

Despite this unique device, however, many questions remained unanswered and were met with the silence claimed by some defendants.

Hélène Sergent, journalist at

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