Yassine Sebaihia, one of the three defendants appearing in the trial for the murder of Father Hamel, "has always rejected any knowledge of a terrorist project," and "he will explain himself later in the proceedings," says his lawyer Katy Mira during a recess on the first day of the trial. The lawyers for the civil parties deplore the refusal of four police officers in charge of intelligence to testify on the grounds that they are "traumatized". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES