This has been a special week at the November 2015 terror trial, as the three state prosecutors prepared the ground for their demands for punishment, delivered on Friday. The French newspapers have been united in their praise of the prosecution team. But it was a far from flawless performance.
"It is difficult for us, who live in a secular society, to understand absolute conviction," chief prosecuting magistrate Camille Hennetier told the court in her final summing-up.