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

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The Guardian – World
“Angry lawyers and bewildered defendants: the fallout from fast-tracking French rioting cases”

Politicians have called for ruthless sentencing, but lawyers blame the politicians for the poverty, and anger, behind their clients’ looting Europe live – latest updates 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…

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