After more than four long hours of hearing, when a witness presents himself and gives disjointed answers, where memories are lacking, the room can find itself amused for a moment: like a break in the middle of heavy facts. But when the next one, then another, and yet another, also report a faulty memory, there are not many people left who can let out a smirk.
Little by little, as night fell on the court this Wednesday, this is the situation in which the court and the jurors found themselves facing the last witnesses. Three of them, two men and a woman, had taken part in the party preceding the attack in Aurélie's apartment; the last, Chloé*, was Gaspard's former partner and followed him during this evening “for fear that he would do something stupid”.
But of the two young men, currently imprisoned and acquaintances of the co-defendants and the victims, and of Chloé, the audience will mainly remember “I don't know anymore” or “I have no more memories”. Despite the questions from the president, who retraces the hearings from four years ago and tries to obtain answers today, the answer often falls, implacably: “I don't remember. »
So much so that Maître Parra-Bruguière, Kévin's lawyer, gets annoyed by Chloé, who cites her youth and her cocaine use to explain her loss of memories: “In fact, in this region, I have the impression that there are only people in prison and people who have no memory. It's not every day that you witness or participate indirectly in this kind of thing, without being reproached for anything; you learned in the days that followed the seriousness of what had happened, I think that must freeze your memory. So, this memory problem that you have, I don't believe it. »
