Will the trial of the January 2015 attacks take place on Monday?
In forty-eight hours, the publication of the order allowing unrestricted use of videoconferencing, including assizes, set fire to the powder among lawyers.
Starting with those who plead at the trial, whether they are from the defense or civil parties.
At stake, the possibility that one of the main defendants, Ali Riza Polat, sick and suffering from vomiting for several days, attends his trial, where he faces life imprisonment, by videoconference.
"A project" that the presiding judge, Régis de Jorna, communicated by email to the lawyers, while the trial has been stalled for three weeks because of the contagion of several defendants by the coronavirus.
The question will be debated at the opening of the hearing this Monday at 9:30 am and pleaded by the lawyers.
"We understood that it will be a decision of the court and not of the president alone"
, affirms Christian Saint-Palais, lawyer of one of the defendants
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