Lhe trial of the Nice attack, which opens on Monday, will see the prosecutor François Molins testify to obtain “answers” on the organ removals carried out on certain victims. “We have never obtained an explanation justifying the need for these massive levies, and therefore we have had the prosecutor Molins cited, who will come to testify before the Assize Court and from whom we are awaiting answers to understand what has happened. past, “said Saturday in Nice, during a press conference, Me Virginie Le Roy, one of the advisers of an association of victims of the attack of July 14, 2016.
At the time, this magistrate, now public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, was, as public prosecutor of Paris, in charge of terrorism cases at the national level. “There are several victims, including children, whom we noticed a posteriori, and after their burial, without the families having been informed, that they had been stripped of their organs, that during the autopsy of the samples had been taken, ”recalled the lawyer. According to her, these removals “were not justified” and “intervened in a totally disproportionate way” since, sometimes, “all the organs were removed”.
About fifteen victims concerned
According to Stéphane Erbs, co-president of the association Promenade des Anges, who lost his wife in the attack, about fifteen victims would be affected by these organ removals. According to this lawyer, the only explanation that was then given to the parents of the victims concerned had been given by the Nice prosecutor’s office. He had indicated, according to her, that these samples had been taken to protect herself from a possible legal action on the terms of hospital care, an argument which she considers “incongruous”.
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“It is incongruous because the requisitions which ordered the autopsies were taken in the context of a terrorist attack, and these requisitions had only one purpose, to determine the causes of death,” she said. argued, adding that, according to her, these requisitions clearly specified that samples of the viscera should only be taken if necessary. “This explanation makes no sense, or else everyone who leaves the hospital is stripped of a few attributes to feed the legal files of hospitals”, further remarked Me The Roy.
On July 14, 2016, a terrorist driving a truck caused the death of 86 people on the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, during the evening of the fireworks display, before being shot dead by the police. Six years after the facts, eight defendants are tried from Monday before the special assize court of Paris for this terrorist trial scheduled to last until mid-December.