Nice attack trial: Audrey faces the death of her twin, “half of her life”

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Laura Borla’s twin, killed at the age of 13 on July 14, 2016, came to the bar to express her pain, her anger and the impossibility of mourning.

By Marion Coquette

HASUdrey Borla holds a four-color pen tightly in his fist. She has before her at the bar a large number of sheets: this testimony that she wrote, rewrote, hesitated to deliver before the assize court responsible for the trial of the Nice attack. She knows that her features are going to be scrutinized, more than others: in her beautiful 20-year-old face that makeup can’t age, we look for the shadow of her sister, Laura. “The twin who lost her sister”, that’s how we talked about her in college, after the attack on the Promenade des Anglais.

Audrey says, “We were like ass and shirt,” and takes a deep breath to contain her sobs. They were 13 and a half years old. “13 and a half years is a short time. He was the love of my life, he was half of my life. We had no secrets…