The small town of Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) commemorated in meditation on Saturday April 3 the victims of the knife attack committed a year ago by a Sudanese refugee, which left two dead and five injured.
To take into account the new health directives, the tribute, initially envisaged Sunday April 4 to coincide with the anniversary of the tragic events, has been brought forward by one day.
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On Saturday April 4, 2020, Abdallah Ahmed-Osman, a 33-year-old Sudanese refugee, had stabbed a client of a butcher shop, born in 1965, and the manager of a café-theater, born in 1976. Five people were also injured in this attack which took place in the city center during the first confinement.
The national anti-terrorist prosecution immediately took up the case.
Announced by the death knell of the Jacquemart Tower, near the café-theater La Charrette by Julien Vinson (one of the victims), the brief ceremony ended with two songs by his friend Akram Sedkaoui.
Several hundred people, masked, were present on the Place du Champ de Mars, some with tears in their eyes.
In the crowd, the family of Julien Vinson, as well as Emmanuelle Blachon, who had been seriously injured in the femoral artery.
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The owners of the tobacco shop, where the assailant's bloody journey began, “
moved to settle in the West.
It was for them the only way to rebuild,
”the mayor of the city Marie-Hélène Thoraval told AFP.
