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'Every July 14, I think of Brodie's smile': Nice bombing trial probes painstaking job of identifying victims

2022-09-14T19:15:00.411Z


REPORT OF THE HEARING - The commissioner and the medical examiner in charge of the identification and autopsies of the victims testified at the bar to the "huge chaos" which reigned the day after the attack.


She has not forgotten "

any face

", he remembers the parade of "

black shrouds

".

After "

the immense chaos"

sown by the ram-truck on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2016, the two witnesses of the day at the trial of the Nice attack had the difficult task of providing answers, as immediate and accurate as possible, to the steady stream of bereaved loved ones who came forward to them.

We intervene at the worst moment of their existence”,

underlined the one who carried out the operations to identify the bodies of the 86 murdered victims.

The second directed the autopsies and forensic examinations.

The task was immense, it was necessary to act urgently, while the families were in a "

unbearable wait.

»

Read the fileAttack in Nice: the trial, six years later

The day after the attack, the Public Prosecutor François Molins had imposed that the bodies be returned to the families no later than July 19.

In four days, Elvire A., police commissioner at the sub-directorate of the Technical and Scientific Police…

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Source: lefigaro

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