

The trial is the first in French history to be accessible for plaintiffs on a live internet radio. Of the 10 attackers, nine were killed - some as they carried out suicide bombings, other who were killed by the police. “So that they really realize that six years later, it’s still very, very close.” “To measure the real impact that this event had on our lives,” Ms. But she wants to see the accused in person and wants the world to understand what victims have been through: the exhausting hyper-vigilance, the endless medical procedures, the administrative obstacle course to get compensation from France’s official victim’s fund, the isolation from friends and family, the broken careers. Garnier, now 30, escaped from the Bataclan uninjured after bursting through an emergency exit. Bursts of gunfire punctuated a deathly silence. Her partner pushed her to the floor, where they lay still, overcome by the smell of blood and gunpowder. Marilyn Garnier was at the Bataclan that night and can never forget.įirecracker noises erupted at the back of the crowd. And in ways, they have defined the national conversation in recent years as France wrestled with unresolved debates over the place of Islam in a country that defines itself as secular immigration and the balance between security and civil liberties.īut the trial is also a reminder of the personal rawness of that night for the many survivors and families of victims.

While France united in mourning in the wake of the devastation, the attacks also instilled deep fears across the country. (One survivor who suffered from severe trauma and killed himself in 2017 was officially declared the 131st victim.)
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13 - a series of shootings and suicide bombings at the Bataclan concert hall, an area outside France’s national soccer stadium and the terraces of cafes and restaurants in central Paris - were carried out by 10 Islamic State extremists who killed 130 people and wounded nearly 500 others.

“The longest trial in our history,” he added. “It’s the trial of all superlatives,” Éric Dupond-Moretti, the French justice minister, said this week at the courthouse on the Île de la Cité, an island on the Seine River that will be partly locked down by the police for the duration of the trial.
