V13: Chronicle of a TrialBy Emmanuel Carrère FSG, 320 pages, $29.'The Bataclan can hold up to 1,498 people and it was packed that night. Nearly a thousand spectators in the pit alone." These words, factual and ominous, are from "V13," by Emmanuel Carrère, a novelist and nonfiction writer of sturdy repute in France. The night he refers to is that of Friday, Nov. 13, 2015-vendredi 13 in French. His book's title is the shorthand that's used in France to refer to the events of that date, when nine terrorists, swearing allegiance to Islamic State, murdered 130 people in Paris.Ninety of the victims, we are told, were killed in "two hours, thirty-eight minutes and forty-seven seconds" of shooting and suicide-bombing at the Bataclan theater in the 11th Arrondissement.The rest died at the Stade de France (a sports stadium) and at the outdoor terraces of Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon, Café Bonne Bière and La Casa Nostra, La Belle V13 Chronicle of a Trial Emmanuel Carrère Transtel by Jamben Équipe and Le Comptoir Voltaire-humdrum bars and restaurants close to the Bataclan. It's important to name every carnage site because the ill-starred Bataclan-where the most people died and where the atrocities were, if it's possible to set up a scale of horror, the worst—has overshadowed the other places in the memory of that night. So much so that the trial of 20 young men accused of involvement in the massacres, a trial that ran from September 2021 to June 2022, came to be called the "Bataclan Trial." "It must be constantly pointed out," Mr. Carrère tells us, "that the correct term is 'Paris attacks trial."" "V13" is an account of that trial, almost every day of which Mr. Carrère attended, notebook in hand, to write a weekly column for L'Obs, a French newsmagazine. As an editor at L'Obs says in the postscript, Mr. Carrère detailed for readers "the dreadful, bloody, teary tale of that cursed 13 November 2015." The book is a distillation of those columns, not a reprinting of them, and has been expertly translated by John Lambert, who has rendered other works by Mr. Carrère into English, among them "Limonov" (2011), his most celebrated novel.The trial, writes Mr. Carrère, has "the colossal ambition" of grasping what happened on Nov. 13 "from every angle, from the point of view of everyone involved." His book is partitioned into three sections: "The Victims," "The Accused" and "The Court," the last of which focuses on the presiding judge as well as the "bustling swarms of black robes"-the lawyers representing the plaintiffs and the defendants. The men in the dock are a motley crew.Their trial will not, says Mr. Carrère, be "the Nuremberg of terrorism." On trial at Nuremberg were the Nazis' top brass. Here, the defendants are "second stringers, since those who did the killing are dead," either as a result of blowing themselves up or of being shot by the police. Only one, Salah Abdeslam-born and raised in Brussels like so many of the V13 terrorists-was part of the "commando." The younger brother of one of the attackers who blew himself up at Le Comptoir Voltaire, Salah was also expected to detonate his suicide belt. But he did not, choosing instead to flee back to Belgium. His true motives for bolting remain a mystery to the end.As might be expected, the first section is the most compelling. The victims present at the trial are the survivors of the attacks and the relatives of the dead: "Those to whom this thing happened." The testimonies, around 15 a day over a period of five weeks, are "frighteningly intense." Mr. Carrère is an eloquent, often disconcerting writer. As he sees it, the victims' testimonies have "the beauty of a collective narrative and the cruelty of a casting call."Nadia Mondeguer, the mother of a young woman killed that night, observes: "To think that the people who killed her were her age." Pierre-Sylvain, a survivor who was in the Bataclan's mosh pit, where the bodies of the dead and wounded had piled high, describes the deliberateness of the killing: "A shout a shot, a sob a shot, a ringtone a shot." Édith, also at the Bataclan: "There was a confetti of flesh everywhere." Coralie: "I clutched my handbag, I was totally afraid of losing it because my health insurance card was in it and I was going to need it when I got to the hospital." "V13" is a brutal, beautiful work, especially adept at raising hard questions. As it happens, the father of one of the victims co-wrote a book with the father of one of the dead terrorists, both men in search of dialogue and understanding. Their collaboration didn't go down well with everyone. Mr. Carrère recounts the testimony of another father whose daughter was killed, who said, "that guy who wrote a book with the father of one of the terrorists makes me puke." Mr. Carrère observes that the victims and observers present are not inclined to condemn the angry man who has lost his daughter. "Nevertheless the flood of archaic fury that gushes from his mouth makes us uneasy." The least interesting of the dramatis personae are the men on trial, poorly educated, confused, alternating between self-protective bluster and a legalistic insistence that their rights be respected-in particular their right to stay silent. Mr. Carrère navigates their distorted minds expertly. But if the book has a weakness, it is its failure to put on trial-as it were-the social and cultural policies of Belgium. Many of the accused and dead terrorists were from Molenbeek, a district of Brussels that has become a haven for radicalized Muslims.So much blame, it must be said, and so much guilt, lies with the Belgian state, whose civic and political dereliction, and failure to invigilate, control and civilize the outsiders who live in its midst, led ultimately to the deaths of 130 innocents in the city of Paris.Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.

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