"
In truth, this time, words are powerless ...
" The special envoys of
Le Figaro
urgently dispatched to the scene of the fire in a nightclub in Isère one Toussaint morning felt the limits of their profession that day.
“
Our job as a reporter has never been so painful,”
they admit.
We have seen the most hardened of our fellow photographers put their cameras away in their cases without a word, by mutual agreement.
"
What is this tragic spectacle that silences the crackling of flashes and puts down the pens?
“
Dozens and dozens of charred, entangled, unrecognizable bodies
”.
A vision which equals in horror "
certain war spectacles
".
In Saint-Laurent-du-Pont in Isère, on the night of October 31 to November 1, 1970, 146 young people were killed in the fire at the nightclub where they had come to have fun on a Saturday evening.
A appalling toll, the culmination of a whole series of security breaches committed by club owners 5-7 and
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