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Wednesday, June 29, the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 ends. The reading of the deliberations is awaited by the victims and the families, very numerous in the afternoon at the entrance to the courtroom.
This is the ultimate wait. In a few moments, Wednesday, June 29, the judge will deliver the verdict of the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015. Several hundred victims and relatives of the disappeared rushed to enter the court, with anguish. In front of the media around the world, the longest trial in French judicial history, which indeed lasted ten months, will finally come to an end. Wednesday, this was probably the longest day, and the most interminable.
On several occasions, the hour of the verdict was postponed. The civil parties gathered at the back of the Paris courthouse, to support each other. Everyone is eager to know. “It was also, this trial, a final opportunity that we had to reincarnate, to incarnate our children, a final opportunity for the survivors to express their pain, to say what they had experienced.explains Philip Duperronfather of a victim. Many are torn between apprehension and the desire to move on, as for Bruno Poncet, survivor of the Bataclan. “There is a real desire for it to stop. Tonight, once the verdict is given, we can move on to something else (…). Go back to everyday life. Everyday life is not the trial. Me, I am not the victim of a professional attack“, he confides.