Luc Hermann is the director of the production company First Lines, located in the same building where the Charlie Hebdo editorial staff was, during the January 2015 attack. This morning, he was on the second floor of the premises on the street Nicolas-Appert (XIth) when he heard screams coming from the street.
"The two victims had gone down to the bottom of the building to take a cigarette break," says Luc Hermann.
They were surprised by the assailant who rushed at them and hit them very hard with a bladed weapon.
Pierre-Adrien has worked in production at First Lines for three years.
He is an extremely devoted boy who manages heavy postproductions.
He has a lot of composure.
Lucie has been managing the editing room schedules with us for a year.
Here the whole team is in a state of shock like all the people who occupy this building in the City of Paris.
We were all gathered in the Comédie Bastille theater, where the witnesses and tenants of the building that housed the Charlie Hebdo newspaper at the time of the January 2015 attack had already been gathered. ”
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And the director of the production company added: “The whole district is cordoned off, the GIGN went around the building with very heavily armed soldiers to check if there were no other dangers.
The judicial police and the magistrates of the anti-terrorist prosecution are on site.
We started to be questioned.
There are direct witnesses within our team.
"
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But Luc Hermann is also quite upset against the lack of security that surrounded the place: “We all wonder about the lack of police protection of the building since the start of the trial.
We are surprised to say the least, it is the only qualifier I will use for the moment.
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Questions that he asked a few minutes ago to Prime Minister Jean Castex and to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
In response, he obtained assurances that an enhanced security system would be put in place.