During a brilliant pleading on Tuesday, Me Hugo Lemont strived to demonstrate that the three terrorists were mounted on the balcony of the concert hall, and not two of them, as concluded The survey.
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We were slowly starting to go on at the end of the audience day on Tuesday, May 24, when the deep and assured voice of a young lawyer drew the audience from his torpor. Since Monday, a string of black dresses have been scrolling at the helm of the attacks of November 13 to engage in an imposed figure of the foundations: the pleadings of civil parties. Avocats have been lend for two days with more or less happiness to this exercise which we generally do not expect much and which must spread over two weeks.
To limit redundancies, and avoid drowning the memory of the victims in the ocean of some 2,400 civil parties of this trial, their 370 lawyers had the good idea to distribute themes (radicalization, the diversion of Religion, mourning, memory …) with uneven success. In the mosaic of choral pleading which is emerging, at the rate of fifteen lawyers per day, all styles have succeeded themselves at the helm: lyric, school, emphatic, out -of -topics, modest, literary …
Tuesday was devoted to the evocation of the sites targeted by the attacks. Fifteen lawyers had already expressed themselves when the long silhouette of M e Hugo Lemont, 34, planted in front of the microphone. In eight months of trial, we had never heard his voice before. From the first sentences, the tone of his pleading is given: precise, nervous and ambitious. The lawyer intends to take some liberties with the imposed figure: he offers nothing less than correcting the story of the Bataclan killing which has imposed itself at the hearing, regretting the “too partial work done during the investigation”.
“erroneous claims”
At the start of the trial, a myriad of testimonies, necessarily plot, sometimes contradictory, had sketched the main lines of the attack of the attack. But a feeling of vagueness remained on certain points. By relying on “objective procedural elements” – ballistic expertise and audio recordings of the Bataclan -, m e lemont wants to “specify, or even contradict” certain “erroneous affirmations” appearing in the ‘ Indictment order.
This major piece of the file, which summarizes in 348 pages the six years of this pharaonic investigation, explains that two terrorists went on the balcony at the start of the killing, while the third, Samy Amimour, would have remained on the ground floor of the road. The lawyer will try to demonstrate that the three terrorists are actually mounted upstairs, a fact which has never been mentioned in eight months of audience. “The voices and bullets of the assassins make it possible to determine the path they have taken,” he boldly launches.
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