"They were brought down by the fatal logic of debt and the poisonous charm of revolving credit. They have their share of responsibility in the affair, but for them alone to bear the blame would be deeply unjust," said lawyer Hubert Delarue.
I guess I don't begrudge the defendants or their lawyers for making this argument. They should argue whatever gets their client off. But it's beyond me how a judge could consider this an exculpatory situation, and the lawyers would not be arguing it if it weren't for the fact that the judges are willing to accept this BS. The courts have completely gone bezerk, everywhere in the world.
The lawyers will argue it, but the French courts are not going to give it any space.
Basically, the lawyers here have NOTHING.
There's a mother and father who murdered a child and tried to murder the rest, but who inflicted extremely superficial wounds on themselves.
What defense is there, other than to try and throw themselves on the mercy of the court?
That's all the lawyer is doing. He's trying to find SOMETHING on which to gain a wee bit of sympathy.
It ain't going to work.
French courts are actually not berzerk. French people are not nearly as dissatisfied with their system of justice as Americans are, because the French system just doesn't produce the wild results that happen in America.