Trial of the November 13 attacks: Ann-Flore, "ricochet victim" of the Bataclan
Patrol in front of the courtroom at the Paris courthouse, where the trial of the November 13 attacks is being held.
AFP - ALAIN JOCARD
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At the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, hearings of survivors and relatives of victims of the Bataclan attack are continuing.
This Wednesday, October 20, the court heard in particular Ann-Flore, a young woman whose father was killed and mother seriously injured.
One of those "
victims by ricochet
", as she describes herself, who
killed
her pain for 6 years before allowing herself to pour herself out on the bar.
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When she learns about the attacks, Ann-Flore takes a while to remember that her parents are at the Bataclan: "
I call my father, it does not answer, my mother, it does not answer
".
"
Lost like a 2 and a half year old girl
", she lets herself be guided by a friend who takes her home.
“
What's crazy is that I watch my life on TV then.
I do gruesome calculations: out of
1,500 people, it's not possible that it will fall on them
”.
But around midnight, his sister calls him.
"
She said to me:
'Mum is alive'
, I understand that my father is dead, I scream, for the last time, the word
'dad'".
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The next day, at the hospital, with her seriously injured mother, Ann-Flore learns that her father died from a bullet in the head.
“
For me, it is the annihilation of a living being: his head is his soul.
"
When I think of him today,"
she continues
, "his face has become a hole: a hole in his head, a fucking hole in my stomach and in my heart
."
She left Paris
Apartment, work, friends, Ann-Flore leaves everything behind, flees Paris which crystallizes its anger more than the terrorists.
Even if she "
is afraid to give marbles to the defense
", she says, Ann-Flore confides to have grown up with a sadness which turned into hatred of the others and that it is "
easy for her to feel close
" of the accused.
“
We were on the same side, we were human, but what sets us apart today is that they cowardly decided to slide on the side of the bad guys.
Cowardly, because life always leaves us the choice and they have never taken responsibility,
"underlines the young woman, before concluding:"
I know that the accused believe in a beyond.
As an agnostic, I would like to tell you that the afterlife does not exist, paradise was here and you screwed it all up.
"
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