Erick Campana (R), lawyer of Julien Ruas, former employee of the Marseille city hall speaks to the press ahead of the start of the trial of the 2018 fatal collapse of two buildings in the rue d'Aubagne street at the courthouse in Marseille, southeastern France on November 7, 2024. Six years after eight people died in the collapse of two buildings near Marseille's Old Port, the trial of sixteen people, including a former deputy mayor, began on November 7, 2024. They were all implicated in the sum total of negligence and financial calculations that led to the disaster. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)