Trial hailed as crucial step for France in facing its collective trauma over 2015 terror attacks
Now, after 10 months of harrowing testimony from the victims and the bereaved, judges will return their verdicts on Wednesday. But beyond the sentencing, the trial’s platform for survivors to speak out has been hailed as a crucial step in
Yet it was the trial’s searing accounts of personal pain and resilience from survivors and the bereaved – delivered only metres away from Abdeslam and other defendants in the specially built dock – that were seen as a historic lesson in the psychological impact of terrorist attacks. Alexander added: “The humanity of the trial will probably be the overwhelming thing that I and my family take away from it … Spending over 10 months in the same room as people who have lost relatives, or who have survived unimaginable things, with the people that created those unimaginable things … the humanity of what you see is phenomenal.”
Being in court had also strengthened their “emotional bond” to the close-knit community of survivors who they call their “Paris family”. “Before I spoke at the trial, I was afraid of being overcome by emotion, I was afraid of speaking in front of the accused and becoming emotional in front of them,” Lascoux said. “In the end, I did cry while giving testimony, but it didn’t matter. I wanted to be a voice for Chris who was no longer there to speak himself.”
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