Trial of the Liège massacre: “Our son paid with his life for the failings of justice”

Trial of the Liège massacre: “Our son paid with his life for the failings of justice”
Trial of the Liège massacre: “Our son paid with his life for the failings of justice”

Could the State have avoided the killing of Nordine Amrani, which cost the lives of six people on December 13, 2011 in Liège? While the court of appeal will rule this Tuesday, the parents of two victims tell “Soir” about their almost thirteen-year-long fight.


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By Laurence Wauters

Published on 5/11/2024 at 09:02
Reading time: 6 min


A having encountered them at the Liège courthouse, year after year, at each legal stage, we can describe their attitudes at the hearing, their jaws which tense, their empty eyes from having cried too much. Claudine and Thierry Kremer, parents of Laurent, 20 years old forever, follow the hearings glued to each other, as if they were one. Michèle and Fabien Gérouville are, for their part, always accompanied by their older daughter Fanny, Pierre’s older sister, taken from life at the age of 16. She writes everything down in a notebook, she does not miss a word spoken, not an element which reinforces their conviction that Pierre, Laurent and the other victims died by the murderous fury of one, but also by the culpable negligence of others. Everyone has been fighting since Nordine Amrani, almost thirteen years ago on Place Saint-Lambert, took the lives of their children.



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