Angry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting cases

October 22, 2026 · 11:08 am 1 sources

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• Angry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting cases
  The Guardian · October 22, 2026 11:08
  Politicians have called for ruthless sentencing, but lawyers blame the politicians for the poverty, and anger, behind their clients’ looting 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…