the defendants claim their innocence

At the very end of the hearing, Tuesday, September 6, the president of the Special Assize Court questioned for the first time the accused of the Nice attack after having set out the facts at length. A 27-year-old young man, accused of having sold a weapon to a relative of the terrorist, is the first to speak. “I was only an intermediary, I was in contact with this man because I sold him drugs, I did not know the terrorist and I was unaware of his plan of attack”he shouts.

A speech similar to that of several other defendants. One of them even lets out a few tears when he explains that he lost everything in this case where he did not know the perpetrator. “There are some, we want to give them a handkerchief, they say that they have been living an ordeal for six years, we would like to explain to them what we have been going through for six years”reacts Celia Viale, one of the victims present at the scene. Justice will have to decide on the sincerity or not of these testimonies during a trial which should last three months.