Residents of the 11th fatalists after the stabbing attack in Paris

Police officers deployed after the attack in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, September 25, 2020. -

• An attack near the former premises of Charlie Hebdo left two seriously injured on Friday.

• The anti-terrorism prosecution took up the investigation.

• In the district, the inhabitants and traders are rather fatalistic.

This Friday, there was a dirty air of déjà vu on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Sirens, police officers deployed in large numbers, and a district partially cordoned off after an attack on the rue Nicolas-Appert which left two seriously injured, two employees of the production company

which works in particular for "Cash Investigation".

All right next to the former

premises

.

In the streets, the memory of the killings perpetrated by the Kouachi brothers in January 2015, and whose alleged accomplices are on trial in Paris, is still alive.

"It is incomprehensible to attack people like that", asserts Youri *, a security guard who works a few steps from the scene of the attack.

This former legionnaire, who saw "much worse" during the Gulf War and in Yugoslavia, however, cannot get over "that France is undergoing so many terrorist attacks".

Same incomprehension for Bruno.

Behind the counter of his hardware store deserted by customers and where people had taken refuge in 2015, he regrets "a bad scenario that is repeated again and again".

"They are still illuminated"

"Are we allowed to go straight there?"

"No sir, you go around please, it's complete.

»A little confused by all the armed police officers who bar his way, Gilbert searches for his way in the small streets to get to his osteopath.

"We lived Charlie, there they are still illuminated" blows this longtime resident of the neighborhood, before showing himself fatalistic: "anyway, here or elsewhere, wherever you can go, you can always run into someone. one that stabs you ”.

"It's sad to see that history is repeating itself", concedes Guillaume, employed in a fishmonger located a hundred meters from the attack.

Despite the violence of the act, he confides that he was not too stressed: “I was much more worried when the 'yellow vests' paraded and that some broke shops.

Today (Friday), there were plenty of police officers who deployed in the street, it was impressive but I felt safer.

"

"Free violence"

A calm that François does not share, who supplies wine to the neighborhood restaurants.

"We are fed up, these attacks are inconceivable, he is annoyed.

Friends who were at the Bataclan are traumatized for life.

I do not understand that we do not put all dangerous people out of harm's way.

It is total and gratuitous violence.

"

As a precaution, the students of schools in the 11th arrondissement were confined for a few hours this Friday.

This was particularly the case for those educated at the Froment elementary school, just off Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.

The gates of the establishment remained closed until 3:30 p.m., then stood up so that parents could come and pick up their toddlers who had had a funny afternoon.

Yoann, who came to pick up his two daughters aged 6 and 10, remained stoic in the face of the new attack which hit the neighborhood: “We did not panic, the children do regular bomb exercises and are well protected.

We would have preferred not to be used to it, but unfortunately we get used to everything.

"

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* At the request of some people, the first names have been changed.

• Charlie hebdo

• Terrorist attack

• Paris

• Society