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"Yes, life is beautiful": at the November 13 trial, the message of hope from a survivor of the Bataclan

2021-10-13T17:57:56.019Z


HEARING REPORT - At the November 13 trial, a lawyer came to testify this Wednesday who survived the Bataclan massacre. "Concerning me, they failed in terror and misfortune," he proclaimed at the bar.


Yes, life is good.

“It must be admitted, testimonies of resilience are rare at the trial of the November 13 attacks.

For two weeks, parade in front of the Assize Court specially made up of survivors crushed by that night of horror and the six heavy years of reconstruction that followed.

So yes, the testimony of François-Dominique W., a lawyer survivor of the Bataclan, had a particular resonance this Wednesday, among the fifteen victims heard by the judges.

In his navy sweater, he delivered a message of hope to the bar, evoking his happiness as a young father fulfilled.

The best answer, in his eyes, to give to terrorists, to show them that they had failed.

"

We're made like rats

"

For François-Dominique, 2015 was a great year.

This young lawyer had just joined a renowned Anglo-Saxon business firm.

On the personal side too, things were changing: he had proposed to his girlfriend, Pauline, in marriage.

At 30, life was open to them.

But two weeks before the attacks,

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Source: lefigaro

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