Trial of Nice attack: Molins, Holland and Cazeneuve in face of victims’ questions

Already heard during the trial of the attacks of November 13, the former Paris prosecutor, the ex-President of the Republic and the former Minister of the Interior testified on Monday before the Special Assize Court from Paris.

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It has been three weeks since survivors and families of victims parade in front of the assize court specially made up of Paris to tell the horror lived on July 14, 2016, the endless trauma generated by this evening, and the questions that She still arouses six years later. These do not concern the involvement of the accused, who do not interest almost anyone, but relate to two themes that have emerged over the depositions: organ samples taken from victims without families have not been informed; The safety device on the English walk on the evening of the attack that left 86 dead.

Monday, October 10, the civil parties sold the bar to those with which they hoped for answers. François Molins was expected on the first theme; Bernard Cazeneuve on the second. We have seen the difference between the word of a magistrate and that of a policy: the words of the former Paris prosecutor have appeased; those of the former Minister of the Interior have lost.

In front of an unusually numerous audience, the Court first welcomed François Molins, who was responsible for all the terrorism surveys as a Paris prosecutor between 2012 and 2018. Ten days earlier, the trial had been shaken by the testimony of Anne Gourvès, whose 12-year-old daughter died on the evening of July 14. This mother had discovered, two years after the death, that all her daughter’s organs had been taken from an autopsy from which she had never been warned. Fourteen victims have undergone these massive organ levies. Some families only understood this at the hearing.

heard by the Court in mid-September, Gérald Quatrehomme, director of the Nice Medico-Legal Institute (IML) where these samples had been taken, had hidden behind the “usual protocol” and the “requisitions “From the Paris prosecutor’s office. The explanations of François Molins, who took tweezers, “aware that it is a painful subject for the victims”, lit this dead angle of the procedure with a new light.

The former Paris prosecutor François Molins Applaudi

There has been a request from the Paris prosecutor’s office to the Nice legists’ forensic doctors to “carry out any useful deduction”, in case the investigations require additional analyzes, but the request has obviously been misunderstood. “It is not up to the magistrates to appreciate what to take on a medico-legal level, we trust doctors. The drama in this story is perhaps a communication problem.”

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