The inhabitants of the building in rue du Corbillon, in Saint-Denis, destroyed during the assault of the raid against two terrorists who had entrenched themselves there, were recognized as victims, Tuesday, October 25, by the Assize court specially composed of Paris.
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How far can we consider ourselves victim of the attacks of November 13? Four months after the verdict of the criminal trial, the Assize Court specially composed of Paris was to answer this question in its civil judgment, Tuesday October 25.
His decision is expanding the list of people who have undergone damage caused by attacks by the terrorist cell. For the first time, seven years after the facts, owners and occupants of the building located on rue du Corbillon, in Saint-Denis, in which Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, two members of the commandos had been entrenched, were legally recognized as Victims of the cell, unlike the advice of the National Anti -Roriste Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).
“terrorist continuum”
“We do not dispute the magnitude of their damages, but they cannot be considered as direct victims,” said the PNAT at the civil hearing on July 5. Their building had been largely destroyed on November 18 during the storm of the raid, which had led Chakib Akrouh to activate his explosive vest. “The Court admitted the principle of a causal link between the offenses for which the accused were condemned and the damages resulting from the police assault and the explosion of the explosive vest of Chakib Akrouh on November 18”, lit- We in the judgment rendered on Tuesday. The Court considers that this explosion “concludes the criminal journey started on November 13 at the Stade de France by the terrorist commandos from Brussels”.
“These inhabitants were not victims of the raid, they were victims of Abaaoud and Akrouh, it is the same team, there is a terrorist continuum,” reacted Méhana Mouhou, lawyer of some 80 games Civilians on rue du Corbillon, which salutes “a great legal victory after seven years of combat”. She believes that her customers, long “considered as second -class victims, are restored in their dignity”. Claudette Eleini, lawyer of five civil parties of the building, is delighted with the “symbolic recognition” granted to “these victims who were forgotten, flouted, defamed, ignored, spoiled”. For many of them, in a precarious situation for seven years, recognition is not only symbolic: the status of civil party allows them to envisage compensation by the guarantee fund of victims of acts of terrorism and the taking In charge of psychological care.
disputed case
Beyond rue du Corbillon, the courtyard was led to decide a certain number of disputed cases, these cases in which, “having not been present at the very place of the attacks and having not been the Target of assassination attempts “, people could not, according to the PNAT, legally considered as direct victims, but only as” unhappy witnesses “.
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