What scars does a drama like that of November 13th leave in the streets of Paris?
Slowly, life resumed its course in this quiet corner of eastern Paris.
But the shadow of the attacks resurfaced with the opening of the trial, a few kilometers away, in the Paris courthouse bunkerized for the occasion.
At La Bonne Bière, where five people were killed in the attacks, waiters are busy from table to table on the crowded terrace.
“I don't want to talk about it,”
the boss opposes us as an end of inadmissibility.
“Journalists come every day.
It keeps coming back,
”explains a server at the Carillon, a place also hard hit by the attacks.
“Every day, people talk to us about it.
They ask us if it's there, ”he
sighs.
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Memory malaise
It's not an understatement to say that the bars are trying to turn the page.
Opposite the Carillon, the restaurant Le Petit Cambodge has been refurbished, with a "more chic" decoration and
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