It was a trial to match the scale of the crime.
More than 400 survivors and relatives of the dead came forward to bear witness to France’s worst peace-time attack.
Fourteen defendants were questioned in a courtroom specially built for their trial, about the terrorist plot that claimed 130 lives on one night in November 2015.
Nine months of hearings were interspersed with breaks, each week, to allow emotions to settle.
“There has never been a trial like this in our history,” France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said the morning after the verdict.
