
After nearly 10 months of hearings and three days of deliberations, the five judges at the special criminal court on Wednesday delivered their verdicts on the 20 Paris attacks accused, finding all but one of them guilty of terrorist offences. The court handed down some of the harshest penalties prescribed under French law.
At the end of this trial, which has exhausted the superlatives, the reasoned judgement set another record ... 126 pages drafted in the three days since the final hearing last Monday.