Despite the language barrier, the pain and tears of Anaïs' mother, helped at the stand by a Tamil language interpreter, pierced the jurors of the Seine-et-Marne Assize Court, this Wednesday in Melun. A jury and a public also greatly moved, by the testimonies of Jean-Paul Joas, her husband, and of little Anaïs, whose body was 80% burned on the night of May 4 to 5, 2018, by a jet of molotov cocktail in the family grocery store in Pringy when she was 7 years old.
On the third day of the trial of the business arsonists, and their alleged sponsor, all three of whom risk thirty years of criminal imprisonment for these acts, emotion was at its peak. There was total silence when the young victim, now 13 years old, was called to the stand and stood on a stool to allow him to be at the level of the microphone. “In the stores, everyone looks at me,” she says straight away in her little girl’s voice. I do not have many friends. With my looks, not many want to play with me. At home, it's complicated. I can't do a lot of stuff. I have a lot of meetings outside. »
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