after the hearing of the civil parties, the psychologists “very attentive to the backlash”

At the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, continuation and end of this week of the testimonies of the civil parties. After five weeks of hearing, and before addressing the personality of the accused from Monday, November 1, 350 victims or relatives of victims expressed themselves before the court. A trying time for all. Jean-Pierre Albertini does not stop listening to testimonies. He spoke last week, mourning the death of his son Stéphane, 39, in the terrorist attack in Bataclan. “I cry often but for six years we cry a lot, so the tear glands are unfortunately broken, he said. It’s very moving, we see the damage, the disaster it caused. ”

“It’s a Chernobyl. All these families of victims where there were serious illnesses and people who died of grief.”

Jean-Pierre Albertini, father of a victim of the Bataclan attacks

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The support of psychologists from the Paris Aide aux Victimes association, present in the room, is a comfort to him. Just like for José Munoz, the father of Victor, 24, who disappeared on the terrace of La Belle Equipe. “I cut at certain moments. I admire the court which every day, for hours, heard things all as touching as each other, he confides. It was so important to have their experience. They wanted to say things and it’s fabulous that the Republic allows us to listen to each other. “

A painful listening for Carole Dammiani, psychologist and director of the Paris Aide aux Victimes association. “What emerges from all these testimonies is this possibility of reconstructing the puzzle, of reconstructing a story where there are a lot less holes than before. There are a lot of things which are rebuilt, which are knitted together. then there is also a very intense pain to hear the other testimonies. It is true that psychologists have been very busy in recent weeks “, she notes.

The association must have intervened several hundred times to help the victims in the room, and the others as well. “What surprised us was not so much the civil parties, who have attitudes that we find in other trials, it is more the professionals. There are many who also came to ask us. because, they tell me, they have this professional shell and yet, there, it was special “, recount Carole Damiani.

“There is a word that is very often used, either by victims or by professionals, whether designers or journalists, it is the ‘power’ of testimonies.”

Carole Damiani, psychologist

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“But it is true that for the civil parties, it costs them a lot of energy and we are very attentive to the backlash”, she continues. Psychologists will also keep a regular eye on those who need it during the trial, and after if necessary.