Journalist, firefighter, diplomat, flight crew, survivors or even young adults, they all witnessed, helplessly, in France and the United States, the attacks of September 11, 2001. All week,
Le Figaro
tells you their memories and the report that they have with this tragic event.
As he walked through the door of his Time Square hotel, Simos * thought to himself that he should surely have listened to his wife, who advised him to stay in Paris to rest.
A hunch, she analyzes later.
Arrived by the last Paris-New York flight of the evening, around 10 pm, the Air France flight
attendant
said he was "
broken
".
He first takes a shower, dines, then goes back to bed.
Morpheus's arms await him there.
The last hours of this Monday, September 10, 2001 go by at full speed.
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: September 11 by Michel Moutot, AFP correspondent in New York
The next morning, the moon gives way to the sun over Manhattan.
A beautiful day is looming.
Simos is not early in the morning but the phone rings, leaving him little respite.
He picks up the receiver and hears a female voice that he doesn't know very well and which directly strikes him: "
Simos, turn on the TV, pirates have taken control of planes and have entered the towers!"
".
Simos thinks, tries to decipher: "
But what carpet did she smoke?"
".
He then goes to the bay window.
He remembers the coolness of the window when he leaned against it.
On the 40th floor of the hotel, the view overlooks Manhattan.
In the distance, he sees smoke.
Then suddenly, a tower is "sucked".
The towers that collapsed on September 11, 2001 in New York.
RAY STUBBLEBINE / REUTERS
Simos insists on this term, “
aspire
”.
The feeling that the bowels of the Earth and gravity swallowed the tower from the inside as it collapsed.
The chief of cabin stunned in front of the window, but recovered quickly: "
Something must be done, the lethargy must end
".
So he decides to
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