January 2015 attacks: relatives of the policewoman shot by Coulibaly at the helm
In this photo taken on August 31, 2020, the tribute to the policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe killed in Montrouge.
The trial of the attacks opened on September 2 in Paris.
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At the trial of the January 2015 attacks, the Special Assize Court of Paris will hear this Friday, September 18, 2020 from the relatives of Clarissa Jean-Philippe, this 27-year-old municipal police officer who was killed by Amédy Coulibaly on January 8 in Montrouge south of Paris.
This Thursday, an investigator came to give details of the attack.
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That morning, Clarissa Jean-Philippe intervenes in a banal traffic accident.
Amédy Coulibaly shoots the young Martiniquaise, who is not armed, down with Kalashnikov fire as she crosses the street.
A detail that Justine, her aunt did not know: “
It hurts a lot to hear all that.
I feel very bad.
We wait for answers and we are there for that, to find out what really happened.
"
But gray areas remain.
Was Amédy Coulibaly actually aiming for a synagogue and a Jewish school located next door?
Did he change his mind when he ran into the police?
What is certain in any case is that
Clarissa Jean-Philippe was killed
because she was wearing a uniform.
But for her cousin, Maéva, who is a gendarme, there is no question of working with fear in her stomach.
“
That would mean that this kind of individual would have won, in fact.
So I do not allow myself in the context of my profession to say to myself
: "Oh
dear
, every day I live with this ball in it".
I allow myself to say to myself:
"I live because my cousin, she can no longer live, she can no longer live her passion, she can no longer live her life as a young woman".
"
This Friday, at the bar, Clarissa Jean-Philippe's mother and aunt will come and tell about the void left in their lives by the disappearance of Clarissa, who was so cheerful, so bubbly.
"
Everything is broken,
" sighs Justine.
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To read also: The challenges of the trial of the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris
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