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A historic trial has started in France over the 2015 Paris attacks which left 130 people dead.

The shooting and bombing assault by Islamist State (IS) group extremists was the worst post-World War Two atrocity in France.

The only surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, is in court with 13 other defendants at a purpose-built facility in Paris.

The trial is being described as the biggest in France's modern history.

Over the next nine months, there will be over 140 days of hearings involving about 330 lawyers and 1,800 survivors and relatives of victims.

Newshour's Razia Iqbal has been speaking to one of the survivors, 40-year-old Ben, about what happened to him on the night of the attacks and what the start of the trial means to him.

"All the victims will tell you that it's in their heads - it's post traumatic stress. The trial is really a milestone in [our] recovery path," he tells us.

Photo shows: Survivors are evacuated from the Bataclan concent hall in Paris in November 2015. Credit: Getty Images

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