services. Instead, he said into his police radio: If they enter the site, I wouldn't pay much for their skins Ms Klein, 38, an inexperienced police intern, was coordinating police radio communications during the tense situation and heard the remark. Prosecutors repeatedly declined to bring the case against the officers, but were finally ordered to do so by France's highest court. The prosecutor in Rennes, who was among those who originally refused, ulti mately requested acquittal During the proceedings in March, the presiding judge insisted that the national police as a whole were not on trial. Even so, lawyers for both sides have emphasised the verdict's wider significance The victims iamilies say the lives of 15 year old Bouna and 17 year old Zyed