Cité as a witness in the Paris Court of Assizes, the former prosecutor of Paris has explained with humility the decisions he has taken within the hours and days that followed the attacks.
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In the “I remember” national of the tragedy of November 13, 2015, there is the sweetness of an autumn evening just before, the hours of anxiety and terror during, and the voice of François Molins after. A rocky accent, an eloquent speech, a singular alchemy of restraint and rigor that magnetizes on the screen at “the Molins Time”, the one where the Paris Prosecutor delivered the first elements of the survey on the attacks which have made 131 dead and dozens of wounded. It was six years almost day for day. When he moved to the bar of the Paris Special Assize Court, Wednesday, November 17, everything came back. François Molins speaks and we listen. It’s a fold that we do not get defeat.
Before him, the former Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, became a lawyer, had delivered for three hours an impeccable but terribly smooth advocacy for his action at the head of his services. The first words of François Molins, today Attorney General near the Court of Cassation, are humble. “I would like to say two things in preamble: these terrorist attacks could not be avoided. I have always lived this type of situation as a failure. And everything has not been perfect, far from it. From Paris, I did, I believe, at best, giving the best of ourselves. “He immediately added:” I find normal to come up for that, because we act on behalf of the French people. “
On November 13, 2015, François Molins is one of the first to go to the attacks. When he arrives at the terraces of the good beer and the chime, “It is 22 hours 15-22.30, there is still no investigator. A brave brigadier of the 11 e arrondissement removes his Ballworm vest to give it back to me. “The voice of the former prosecutor of Paris Chavire when he evokes the scenes available to him. He gets back, tell the rest. The Terrorist Section, Camille Hennetier – which today occupies the public prosecutor’s place at this trial alongside two other magistrates – joined him on the spot, they go together in Bataclan. “I do not know about the massacre that is already underway and taking hostage. We arrive at 22:45. We install the PC in a bistro with the Paris Michel Cadot police prefect and the chief of the BIS, Christophe Molmy. At midnight, Molmy submits us the assault plan. We will validate this plan very quickly. “They follow the live assault on the radio that is equipped with the prefect, learn that all the hostages are healthy and sound.
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