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On boulevard Voltaire:
“Being a stranger in this city I did not realize immediately that I was close to Bataclan, where - only a few years ago - men and women were brutally murdered. Innocent people who were having a meal or drinks with friends in one of the nearby restaurants or cafés.
Many tried to hide from the terrorists behind counters, in closets, under tables.
Eventually most of these venues re-opened, some took more than a year. At least one changed its name.
Hannah Arendt wrote about the ‘Art of Beginning Afresh’ and advocated resilience and hope.
How on earth can anyone accept religious or political convictions as a legitimate reason for killing people? Terrorism, like the totalitarian state, thrives on stories that diffuse between ‘fact and fiction’ and ‘true and false’.
Stories can kill.”
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