A great sorrow, disarray and something unreal seems to float on the small town of Romans-sur-Isère, still reeling from the tragedy of this Saturday spring morning.
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Julien and Thierry are dead, mowed, blind, by Abdallah Ahmed-Osman, armed with his butcher knife. And five other victims, Serge, Ghislaine, Abdellak, Jean-François and Emmanuelle, were brutally injured. Thierry, 55, computer engineer did his shopping at Ludovic Breyton's butcher's shop. By jumping over the counter and stabbing him, the terrorist gave him no chance. Just like Julien Vinson, this 44-year-old father, eldest son of a family of restaurateurs very well known in the city. With his father and brother, he ran La Charette, a café-theater that occasionally hosted passing show biz. Witnesses said he died as a hero, protecting his 12-year-old son as they opened the shutters together.
How will his partner and his son, who have witnessed the worst nightmares that we can see on earth, recover from it? How to erase the freezing image of this man with a knife? "
Raphaël Vinson, president of the Romans Tennis Club, and distant cousin of Julien VinsonRaphaël Vinson, president
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