It's a text filled with love. A letter titled "You will not have my hate" (shared on Facebook) in which Antoine Leiris responds to terrorists. On Friday night, his wife was shot dead in the Bataclan, leaving him alone with his 17-month-old son. This journalist from France Bleu lost an "exceptional being" but did not choose hatred in response.
Here is his letter: "On Friday evening you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son but you will not have my hate, I do not know who you are and I Do not want to know it, you are dead souls.If this God for whom you blindly killed us in his image, every bullet in my wife's body will have been a wound in his heart.
" My son and I are stronger than all the armies of the world "So no, I will not give you this gift to hate you. You have sought it, however, but to answer hate with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are. You want me to be scared, to watch my fellow citizens with a wary eye, to sacrifice my freedom for security. Lost. Same player still plays.
I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of waiting. She was as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, as beautiful as when I fell head over heels over 12 years ago. Of course I am devastated by grief, I grant you this little victory, but it will be short-lived. I know that she will accompany us every day and that we will meet again in this paradise of free souls to which you will never have access.
There are two of us, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world. I do not have more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who wakes up from his nap. He is only 17 months old, he will eat his snack like every day, then we will play like every day and all his life this little boy will make you the affront to be happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either.