Angry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting cases - The Guardian
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Awa, 18, stood in the dock in the tribunal de Paris, a small, mute and bewildered figure seeming unable to understand, let alone answer, the simplest of questions. The court was told she had joined young people who looted an Yves Saint Laurent store on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris’s Left Bank late on Sunday and stripped it bare within minutes. Awa was arrested at a nearby Métro station with a black balaclava and black gloves in her backpack along with four YSL handbags worth a total of €5,000 (£4,200). In the dock, dressed entirely in black – the clothes she was wearing when arrested two days earlier – she appeared panicked, clutched at her hair, picked her lip. Unable to speak, she covered her face and began to weep; first silently, then uncontrollably, her sobs punctuating an almost palpably painful silence. Awa was just one of 2,500 people arrested during last weekend’s rioting and looting across the country, more than 900 of whom are being fast-tracked through the courts using a procedure called comparution immédiate (immediate appearance). It sends them to trial straight or shortly after being taken into custody, or within three days if they are held in pretrial detention.
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