Nice attack: “I should have given him the body of his child”

VS’is an old gentleman in a dark jacket and striped tie, very tall, very straight and almost bald. An 82-year-old gentleman who, arriving Thursday at the bar for the third day of hearings of civil parties in the trial of the Nice attack, assesses “at 2-3” the scale of his suffering, compared to that of the victims who spoke before him. “I wasn’t in Nice on the evening of July 14, he said, I was in the mountains with my partner. Jean-Pierre lost his son Matthias, 45, killed with his partner and his mother-in-law on the Promenade des Anglais. He learned the news on the evening of July 15, after looking for them everywhere.

“Two days later, we were told that we could see them in the morgue, we were warned that it would be very difficult. You are like in front of an aquarium…