The trial for the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris began in France

(CNN) – The process against twenty men – some of them will be tried in absentia – accused of a jihadist attack that occurred in 2015 has begun in Paris.

Almost 6 years have passed since the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, the largest ever perpetrated on French soil, and this Wednesday begins the largest trial ever held in France, in which 300 victims will testify over nine months.

Of the 20 men accused of planning, assisting and carrying out the bombings, only 14 will sit in the dock, including Salah Abdeslam, one of the only known survivors among those accused of being directly involved in Paris that night.

So far he has been silent and both the victims and the victims’ attorneys say they don’t expect much from the trial other than the opportunity to put the traumatic memories so vividly etched in their minds on the record.