Trial of the Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks: “It brings her back to suffering each time,” says Marielle Beltrame’s lawyer

Me Mathieu Montfort is the lawyer for Marielle Beltrame, civil party in the Paris trial. Midi Libre – FRANCOIS BARRERE

For the Montpellier lawyer, the main thing is that this trial can be held and allow everyone to understand what happened, beyond the verdict of conviction or the verdict. acquittal which could occur. 

"In this file, everything is extraordinary"believes the Montpellier lawyer Me Mathieu Montfort, civil party for Marielle Beltrame, who will go, without his client and for five weeks, to follow the Parisian hearings before the special assize court which will judge the accomplices of the terrorist of Trèbes and Carcassonne,  and, if she wishes, report to him.

"It’s a terrorist attack, far from Paris and big cities, in a supermarket: it affects everyone's daily life. It’s an extremely banal act, which affects ordinary people who are going shopping or working. Marielle Beltrame is the wife of a man who also goes to work that day, but as a policeman. And who will carry out an extraordinary operation, which costs him his life. We talk a lot about her husband, for everyone, this trial is the Beltrame affair, while for her, he was Arnaud. All this brings her back each time to suffering, and to the trials she went through."

Guilty at all costs ?

For the defense of the seven accused, we seek to find the guilty at all costs, while according to them Redouane Lakdim acted alone, and unpredictably.

"Faced with this pain, we have the extreme of the penal code, with terrorist offenses, and a special assize court. With anti-terrorism magistrates who considered that there were charges against these seven accused, and that it will be necessary to decide replies Me Montfort. "This trial offers insight, but it’is not a show trial. A conviction or an acquittal is part of a judicial response, for a public who needs to understand: doing justice is also important for mourning, and for those who are bruised in their flesh ."

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