Her eyes reddened by grief, Beya, a 54-year-old engineer, enters the Grand Mosque of Paris at around 13:30 p.m. for the main Friday prayer, on October 13. "I'm here to calm down," says the French-Algerian woman, her nails painted red, her hair dyed blonde. Between "the murderous war in the Middle East" and the "absolute cruelty" attack by an Islamist at the Gambetta high school in Arras, in her country that she "loves", this Muslim woman is "overwhelmed".
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