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Hyper Hide: the chilling tale of 4 hours and 4 minutes of terror

2020-09-22T18:45:15.699Z


STORY - The trial of the January 2015 attacks continues at the courthouse. Zarie Sibony, ex-cashier of the store who was part of the hostages, was heard on Tuesday.


Like the methodical executioners sometimes, that of the Hyper Cacher, Amedy Coulibaly, displays a sort of arrogance while he carries out his dreadful task.

Like many survivors of the worst disasters, Zarie Sibony, 28, gives a both clinical and heartbreaking account of the 4 hours and 4 minutes during which she believed her life would end with a Kalashnikov shot.

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On Friday January 9, 2009, she was a cashier at the Hyper Cacher at Porte de Vincennes.

She remembers that she

"passed a bag of frozen chicken"

when the killer broke in.

It is around 1 p.m. First shot, immediate.

Yohan Cohen, employee of the store (and not a customer, as indicated by mistake on Tuesday, Editor's note), falls screaming:

"Help, Patrice, it hurts."

Patrice, the director, comes running.

Amedy Coulibaly wounds him in the arm but he manages to escape.

Zarie crouched under his crate.

The murderer is not fooled.

He approaches and says:

"Aren't you dead yet, are you?"

He pulls to frighten her further.

She comes out of her derisory hiding place, sees the bloody body of her colleague who is still alive.

To the stranger, she asks,

"Is that the money you want?"

I can give it to you. "

Him:

"Do you think I'm doing this for money?"

The Kouachi brothers and I are part of the same group.

You Jews love life too much when it is death that is important.

I am here to die.

You are Jews and French, the two things I hate the most. ”

Zarie never ceases to step over corpses to obey the injunctions of the cynical killer

Under Zarie's eyes, in a quarter of an hour, fall Philippe Braham, François Saada and the one who tried to rebel, Yoav Hattab.

"He did not even know how to use a weapon,"

sneers the terrorist, who kicks the murdered young man in the face.

He orders Zarie to go find the hostages in the basement.

"Otherwise I'll kill her," he

shouts, threatening Andrea, the other cashier, paralyzed.

He also wants the young woman to call the police to warn her of what he is doing.

But the 17th does not answer:

"You are not important to them"

, quips the Daesh sicaire.

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From each of his prisoners, in the store which stinks of blood and gunpowder, he asks for names, first names, ages, profession and confession.

Two are not Jews:

"You have chosen the wrong day to do your shopping in a kosher store"

, squeals the Islamist.

Zarie never ceases to step over the corpses to obey the injunctions of the cynical killer.

Suddenly, she cracks: brief sobs escape her.

Coulibaly:

"Are you crying?

But why?"

Near the entrance, Yohan Cohen is not dead.

He moans.

"Do you want me to finish it?"

, asks the madman of the captives.

“We answered in unison: 'No, not at all',”

recalls the cashier.

But Amedy Coulibaly fired on the unfortunate man, who was silent forever.

The Iron Curtain began to rise, very, very slowly.

I saw the red lasers of the police weapons, there were 30 or 40 detonations

Zarie Sibony

When the assault is given, shortly after 5 p.m., Zarie sees Amedy Coulibaly one last time walking firmly towards the door of the store and the destiny he has chosen for himself.

In one hand, a Kalashnikov.

In the other, a cell phone with which he talks to the police:

"If you continue, I'll kill them all

.

"

“I was sure I would die,”

Zarie continues.

I prayed it would be quick.

The Iron Curtain began to rise, very, very slowly.

I saw the red lasers of the police officers' weapons, there were 30 or 40 detonations ”

.

This time it is the executioner who dies.

During this closed session of four hours and four minutes, the story of which freezes the audience, 17 men and women were subjected to the terror of a fanatic anti-Semite.

And to his obscene detachment which made him say, by inviting the hostages to eat at the same time as him:

"Help yourself, today, it's free."

»To see also - Zarie Sibony, hostage of the Hyper Cacher, tells the« four most horrible hours »of his life

Zarie Sibony, hostage of the Hyper Cacher, recounts the “most horrible four hours” of his life - Watch on Figaro Live

Source: lefigaro

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