at the Sarkozy-Gaddafi trial, the dignity of the relatives of the victims of the UTA DC-10 attack

The pain suddenly entered the courtroom, poignant, palpable, tamed by thirty-five years of suffering but still there, and the anger too, with calm and infinite dignity. The families of the victims, who lost a father, a brother, a husband in UTA flight 772, calmly testified to their impossible mourning, Thursday, January 23, before the Paris court, after the attack which cost 170 lives people of 18 nationalities, including 54 French, in 1989. Nicolas Sarkozy and the other defendants in the trial for suspicion of Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign listened without in a word, pale, wan, this flood of sacrificed lives.

The Klein family spoke first. “My brother Jean-Pierre died on September 19, 1989Danièle said softly. He was an actor, a director, keen on theater, received at the age of 18 at the National Conservatory, without even the baccalaureate. When he left a room, the light dimmed a notch. » François Truffaut had noticed the young man, who had a role in The Last Metro (1980). He had spent two months in Congo-Brazzaville to produce a play about a mad dictator who devoured his people. “The premiere of the play, without him, was bathed in tears. » The Kleins are a Jewish, non-religious family, survivors of the Shoah, very proud to be of the lineage of Léon Blum.

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