V13 - DIE TERRORANSCHLÄGE IN PARIS

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Court report by Emmanuel Carrère | German by Claudia Hamm

Six years after the Bataclan attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, the men who helped the terrorists with their preparations are on trial. The name of the trial: V13, for Vendredi treize - Friday the 13th. Writer Emmanuel Carrère is on site as an eyewitness, recording the course of the trial in detail for the weekly newspaper "Le Nouvel Obs". Carrère is driven by the question of "where madness begins when it comes to God" and the desire to witness the creation of a collective narrative. So he spends month after month in the "windowless white plywood box" that has been built into the Palace of Justice on the Île de la Cité because of the gigantic public interest. In clear language that demonstrates a sense of nuance and legal pitfalls, Carrère allows his readers to participate in the trial up close. On the 10th anniversary of the attack, director Stephan Kimmig sets out with Carrère's journal in search of the roots of Islamist violence and the subtle mechanisms of justice. How do you give the victims a voice? How does a society that wants to live on deal with such trauma? In an intimate stage setting, the theater evening also becomes a declaration of love to the rules of justice, which - as Carrère writes - attempts to "put the world back into its place."