A deserted street, silent, bathed in sunlight, and a few gendarmes, assault rifles slung over their shoulders, pacing up and down in front of the door of the former “Charlie Hebdo” premises, rue Nicolas-Appert (XIth).
A little further on, the 11th century town hall is surrounded by a row of gray army cars, stamped Mission Vigipirate, more numerous than usual.
The soldiers of Operation Sentinel patrol with their Famas.
Inside the municipal building, psychologists requisitioned in 24 hours, took place in fifteen boxes installed the same morning to receive residents traumatized by the attack on Friday.
"Fifty people have already come", notes François Vauglin, the PS mayor of the 11th century, who deplores a "repeated nightmare".
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100 meters as the crow flies, rue de la Roquette (XIth), "barricades were hastily erected on Friday evening in front of the synagogue", confides the Maxiprimeur grocer, installed just next door.
"Police cars patrol".
This weekend is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
The cult building, closed, which could be a target, is even more protected.
"We saw soldiers pass," adds the hairdresser opposite.
They are armed and ready to fire ”.
However, the young hairdresser wants to put it into perspective: “We must not panic after this attack.
The danger is everywhere.
This is not a reason to stay locked up at home ”.
Not quite the opinion of Sammy Ghozlan, president of the National Office for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA): "The State and the police headquarters should have protected the Charlie Hebdo site, all the sensitive places of the 11th century and synagogues ”.
And to insist: "It is not patrols that are necessary but static guards".
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Eric, quadra, who lives in the building right in front of Charlie Hebdo had "a bad feeling" with the trial being held at the courthouse.
“Everything was not done to protect us.
There were alerts.
The trial but also threats from the Pakistan side.
We should have had police patrols ”, regrets this Parisian.
"We feel powerless and resigned", considers for her part Nicole, in her seventies, who lives on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir (XI), just around the corner and who has "forgotten nothing of 2015 and our daze".
“Has the threat been properly assessed in the borough?”
In town hall, François Vauglin asks himself questions: “I wonder about the fact that there was no police protection during the days of the trial.
It is up to the Ministry of the Interior and the police prefect to assess the threats of which they may be aware from the feedback of their intelligence services.
Has the threat been properly assessed in the borough?
It's their job to distribute the forces ”.
“It's easy to say that now,” says Catherine.
They may not have made good decisions ”but this Saturday, the thirty-something intended to“ resume the course of her life ”.
Friday, at the time of the attack, this mother, 37, had her 4-year-old son locked up in his nursery school on rue Alphonse-Baudin, exactly between Charlie's premises and the Bataclan.
“There was a horrible moment of panic,” she recalls.
Then an email from the parents' association fell.
He reassured us and explained to us that the soldiers guarded the school and protected our children ”.
So on Saturday morning, Catherine took her little boy "to his acting class as planned".
If this Parisian believes that "the 11th arrondissement = attacks", she nevertheless warns: "we are not going to move".