This Friday, like every day, Idrissa (the first name has been changed) was expecting a difficult day.
Sewers, this 53-year-old man and his colleague were working this Friday morning, from 7:30 am, in the rue Nicolas-Appert, just in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
A direct witness to the attack, he finally witnessed "a horror".
“I saw a man running behind another,” says Idrissa.
The first one, who was bleeding, was screaming
help me help me
.
He entered a building, I rushed to identify the man who hit him, but he fled.
"
Idrissa then walks towards her colleague who worked in front of 6 rue Appert, where the attack took place.
His friend is livid.
"He was completely paralyzed, book Idrissa.
And he told me what he had just seen.
A scene of incredible violence, gratuitous.
“The attacker passes the former Charlie Hebdo premises for the first time.
A man and a woman smoke a cigarette.
Ali H., the alleged assailant, stops, takes a chopper from his backpack and then turns around in the direction of his two victims.
He first hit the woman, his colleague wanted to intervene, shouted
but what do you do?
The man with the chopper then hit him too.
"
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Very quickly, the emergency services and the police arrived on site.
“I was shocked, Idrissa breathes.
There was blood everywhere, it was excruciating.
I don't understand, a man should never be able to do that to another.
In the process, Idrissa and her colleague are transported to a theater located a few meters away.
Both were heard in the afternoon by investigators from the criminal squad.