Six years after the assault in Good, eight defendants will seem on Monday earlier than the particular courtroom of Paris for a brand new extraordinary terrorist trial, scheduled to final greater than three months.
This assault on the Promenade des Anglais, on the night of Bastille Day -- the French Nationwide Day -- left 86 useless, together with 15 youngsters and adolescents, and greater than 450 injured.
That is the second deadliest assault on French soil after these of 13 November 2015.
Symbolically, the trial will happen in a particular "tailored" courtroom constructed for the 13 November trial -- often known as "V13" -- within the capital's historic courthouse.
A complete of 865 folks joined the trial as civil events on the finish of August, whereas others will likely be ready to take action throughout the listening to. For many who can not come to Paris, the trial will likely be broadcast on the Acropolis conference centre in Good.
The perpetrator, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, was shot on-site throughout the assault again in 2016.
On 14 July, driving a 19-tonne lorry, he drove into the group gathered to attend the fireworks and live shows organised that night on the well-known avenue in Good. He was killed there by the police.
The assault -- a 12 months and a half after the Charlie-Hebdo assault and eight months after these of 13 November -- had been claimed by the so-called Islamic State organisation.
The investigation established that the declare was "purely opportunistic," after failing to determine a direct hyperlink between the perpetrator and the jihadist group.
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