All of the defendants detained, installed in the box, decided to return to the cell and not to attend the continuation of the reading of the indictment scheduled for Monday. Including, therefore, Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa, also sick.
He is unwell and has not been tested, lamented his lawyer, Vincent Lurquin, upon his arrival at Justitia, saying then that he did not know if his client had made the trip for Monday’s hearing. “I don’t want him to come here if he’s sick,” he said.
According to the president of the court, herself affected, “a virus is circulating” within the judiciary, clerks, lawyers and the accused. A substitute juror, suffering, had to be replaced on Monday morning, leaving only 19 substitute jurors in the “reserve”. Laurence Massart will consider, Monday noon, a possible adjournment of the trial until next Monday “so as not to lose everyone”. This week, hearings were only scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.