"What's your name?
- Philippe.
- Philippe how?
- Philippe Braham. "
Two shots are fired.
Philippe Braham has just been assassinated because Amedy Coulibaly, in his name, deduced that he was Jewish.
The Paris Assizes began on Monday, examining the hostage-taking on Friday (Shabbat day) January 9, 2015 at the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes.
The terrorist had equipped himself with a GoPro camera, in order to be able to immediately propagate on the Internet the images of his carnage.
These were not shown in court, but a transcript of the soundtrack was read by the president.
Screenshots taken from video surveillance also give an idea of the horror.
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Barely entered the store, Amedy Coulibaly, over-armed and holder of twenty sticks of dynamite, shoots a customer wearing a kippah who peacefully pushes his cart.
Severely injured Yohan Cohen collapses - he will be finished half an hour later, his moans indisposing the murderer.
Then Mr. Braham in his turn falls.
François Saada finds himself face to face with the jihadist's Kalashnikov, sketches a U-turn.
Too late: a bale mows him down.
At this moment, while a cashier, under threat, undertakes to lower the iron curtain, a customer comes along who ignores the employee's signs: François Saada finds himself face to face with the jihadist's Kalashnikov, sketching a turn around.
Too late: a bale mows him down.
At the back of the store, Yoav Hattab notices the other assault rifle that the terrorist has placed on sacks of flour.
After a brief reflection, he grabs it and targets the killer.
The weapon jams.
Not that of Amedy Coulibaly, who coldly mows down Yoav the intrepid.
Once it is on the ground, it receives a kick in the face.
In a quarter of an hour, Amedy Coulibaly murders four men.
Because they are Jews.
Delusional claims
A siege of several hours followed.
Seventeen people, including a baby - whom his mother is breastfeeding, hidden in a cold room - and a 3-year-old child, are at the mercy of a man who can blow up the building at any time.
The fanatic's claims are delusional: withdrawal of French forces from countries where the Islamic State is trying to impose itself by force, the presence of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, release of individuals convicted of acts of terrorism … Amedy Coulibaly, who speaks by phone with several journalists during the hostage-taking, is concerned about his reputation: he greets BFMTV, because the banners scrolling at the bottom of the screen fail to report that there are four deaths.
He also warns that if bad luck happens to the demons of
Charlie Hebdo,
the Kouachi brothers, entrenched at the same time in a printing press in Seine-et-Marne, he will kill all his hostages.
When the Kouachi are neutralized, it becomes urgent to storm Paris: Amedy Coulibaly also dies on January 9, around 5:10 p.m.
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Final sequence of the series of January 7, 8 and 9, 2015, the attack on the Hyper Cacher amazes by its assumed anti-Semitism, the cruelty detached from the perpetrator.
The latter, whose voice recorded by BFM can be heard, seems poised, sure of his actions and his motivations.
A journalist questions him, as if we could interview anyone under any circumstances, without realizing that these questions end up irritating the madman who cuts it short:
“That's enough for the moment.
Pass my number on to the police ”
.
Anne Hidalgo heard
In the middle of the afternoon, despite the symbolic protest of the defense, the court heard Anne Hidalgo, by virtue of the discretionary and very benevolent power of the president.
Quoted at the request of associations (SOS-Racisme, Licra and UEJF), the mayor of Paris, perhaps a candidate for the presidential election of 2022, is undoubtedly flattered to participate in a
“historic trial”
and filmed.
What will posterity remember from his testimony?
That Mrs. Hidalgo proclaims, even today:
"I am Charlie."
That the City had relocated the newspaper after a fire.
That the Council of Paris granted
"honorary citizenship"
to the decimated weekly, whose cartoonists and journalists laughed heartily at all honors.
We then remember the sentences pronounced here, on September 8, by Jérémy, to evoke his friend Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance agent killed by the Kouachi on the ground floor of
Charlie's
building
.
In each of his words, there was a tear for the stolen life and a smile for "Fredo", the friend whose memory is unalterable.
Anne Hidalgo, she will remain as the witness of official compassion.
This boring and cold compassion like the marble of a stele that is flowered once a year.