Lawyer for Paris Attacks Suspect Reveals Trial Challenges

"I had been warned that it was going to be a rather complicated experience, but physically, I may have underestimated the importance of traveling and not being at home," Stanislas Eskenazi told Bx1. The trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks opened on Wednesday, September 8 before the special assize court in Paris and will last nine months. In total, 400 lawyers representing nearly 3,000 civil parties. It is a long and painful trial for Mohamed Abrini’s lawyer. "A case that takes you several weeks happens quite often, but a case of 9 months only happens once in a lifetime," he says.

The testimonies of the civil parties will have lasted five weeks and will remain a lasting memory for Stanislas Eskenazi: "as a man, to hear for five weeks people talk about their pains, it is a moment that I would have gladly spared myself, but it is a moment that must be faced".

The pleading of the defense of Mohamed Abrini is scheduled for May. As for the verdict, it should be handed down before the summer. What’s next? The trial of the jihadist attacks that had killed 32 people and more than 340 injured on March 22, 2016 in Brussels will open on October 10, 2022 in the Belgian capital.