Last Friday night, the 13th of November, seven simultaneously-led terrorist attacks shook the streets of Paris and the hearts of the entire nation. France had never seen attacks of the like since the end of World War II. With 129 deaths and 349 injuries, the civilian damage is substantial. The attacks stretched out from the Stade de France to the heart of the capital, transforming it’s streets into a real battlefield. Axel, a 25 year old student in Paris, has shared with Egyptian Streets his experiences. Making his way by metro towards the Oberkamps station to meet some friends somewhere around Rue Albert in the 10th Parisian district, perhaps at the popular bar ‘Carillon’, an unusual sequence of events happened. For ‘security reasons’, as announced by the driver, he had to make his way out in the preceding station along with twenty other people. “We weren’t sure of what the reasons really were. Some of us managed to get hold of news about the attacks thanks to phone calls from family members, but none of us realized the extent of what was going on and how physically close we were…
Race or Religion Don’t Matter, Paris Attacks ‘Affected Us All’
November 17, 2015
