The images of the murderous race of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel on the Promenade des Anglais recorded by video surveillance cameras on July 14, 2016 were broadcast at the audience on Thursday.
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One last time, Thursday, September 15, shortly after 1 pm, the president of the court Laurent Raviot warns: “I want to say that these are terrible images. I again warn the people who will view them of the consequences that it could have. We don’t have to stay in the room if we do not want to see all of these videos. “Three people get up, and go out. The courtroom is far from full, but it had never welcomed so many people since the opening of the trial.
Lights go out. The giant screen is lowered. After several days of discussion on the opportunity to disseminate them, many warnings on their potential psychic impact, and a detailed story, at the helm, by an investigator who had seen them, the images recorded on the evening of July 14, 2016 by the Videosurveillance of the Promenade des Anglais, where 86 people were killed by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel behind the wheel of his truck, will be projected in front of the Paris Special Assize Court.
The majority of civil parties were favorable to this dissemination, in order to grasp the reality of the attack they have experienced, or in which they lost one or more relatives. For magistrates, this should also allow you to get a precise idea of the 19-ton trajectory, and to better define who, among the 25,000 people present on the Promenade des Anglais that evening, is admissible as a civil party .
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No Promenade des Anglais on the first video surveillance image projected on the screen, but Boulevard Vérany, further north. It is 9:34 p.m. on the left of the screen, a white truck parked under the trees, along the sidewalk. On the right arrives a man by bike, as a dancer: Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. He loads his bike in the truck, climbs in the cab, puts his turn signal on the left, starts, moves away. In less than an hour, after having circulated then parked for a moment in the streets of Nice, he will start his carnage.
The four minutes and seventeen seconds that lasted his deadly race on the Promenade des Anglais were recorded by six different cameras. Put end to end, these silent recordings that will be linked to the screen last ten minutes. Ten minutes of raw horror. Ten minutes of collective apnea in the courtroom, during which we will only hear two noises: the tinging of the ground under the steps of the police officers ensuring that no one films the screen, and the cries of dread of certain civil parties reacting to the hardest images – some spectators will not remain until the end.
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