“What I just told you about these six years is not me. I do not recognize myself “. Tears in his voice and his eyes cloudy, Vincent has just finished his story in front of the specially composed Assize Court. Heard on October 5, this survivor of the Voltaire counter who lived, on the evening of November 13, 2015, the bomb attack perpetrated by Brahim Abdeslam, tried to explain, with carefully chosen words, his difficult reconstruction. And this anger that has not left him for six years.
“I had worked well before” he explains to 20 minutes at the end of his hearing. Several sheets on which a few notes and whole sentences have been affixed, testify to this desire to do well. But above all to say well. “I had rehearsed quite a bit when I wanted to do something rather spontaneous. But there, at the moment T, I am very happy with my testimony ”.
“I’m not alone anymore”
This thirty minutes at the bar will have finally been able to release, in part, Vincent from this burden that he had been carrying since this evening of November 13, 2015. To the point of thanking the President of the Court for “this look and this attentive ear” which , he said, gave him the relief he so hoped for. “There, I feel free. I’m not alone anymore, ”he breathes.