Terrorism is a cluster bomb, the effects of which are felt long after the bullets have died down.
On January 9, 2015, Amedy Coulibaly killed 4 people in the Hyper Cacher at Porte de Vincennes (Paris XXth).
But it is the life of entire families, who came this Tuesday to testify at the bar of the special Assize Court, that the assailant shattered.
"That day, I died with him", breaths, her voice broken with sobs, Valérie Braham, Philippe's wife, shot while shopping at 45: "My husband was a pillar in my life. life.
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“Michel was devoted, benevolent, attentive.
He made the people around him happy, naturally.
He was the backbone of our family.
He knew how to bring us together, unite us, reconcile us if necessary, ”whispers Annie-Laure Saada, Michel's sister, using the same metaphor of the pillar.
Retired and father of two, his older brother died at 63.
For his wife, absent at the trial but whose brother read a letter to the court, this retired business manager was "the backbone" of the family.
“Without him, we barely stand,” she wrote.
On January 9, 2015, for all these families, the world collapsed.
Yohan Cohen, Philippe Braham, Yoav Hattab and Michel Saada (from left to right and top to bottom) AFP
Since then, everyone has struggled to survive.
Valérie Braham is overcome by sorrow and the anguish that her three children will find themselves alone if something happens to her.
Yohan, Eric Cohen's son, was 20 years old.
He died after being dying in this store where he worked as an employee.
His father never succeeded, either, to resume his former life and his professional activity.
“I lost confidence in myself.
I am no longer me, ”reveals himself at the helm this man with the massive build.
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With the sudden death of Michel, Annie-Laure Saada lost a generous older brother who helped her on a daily basis in her life as a “solo mom”.
A loss with serious consequences.
After the attack, she saw her 7-year-old son no longer able to write and isolate himself in the playground and her 15-year-old daughter lose her footing in science.
"It was double the penalty," she said, her voice twisted with emotion.
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For all these families of Jewish victims, the anti-Semitic dimension of the act upsets them as much as it shocks them.
“My son hadn't done anything.
He died only because he was a Jew.
I do not support it.
Why the hatred?
“Asks the father of Yoav Hattab, proud of this son who died a hero at the age of 21 while trying to steal the weapon from Amedy Coulibaly.
And this former chief rabbi of Tunis to underline the emotion of his Muslim “brothers” at the announcement of the death of Yoav, then a student in France.
The trial of anti-Semitism
“Why this hatred of the Jew?
»Asks Eric Cohen relentlessly, whose anger we can feel.
Annie-Laure Saada says that her brother and sister-in-law had plans to go to Israel where their two children were already living.
“One day in 2014, he told me this sentence that I thought about a lot:
We can no longer stay in France, we Jews, you should do the same.
Like the parents of Yohan Cohen, like the wife of Michel Saada, Valérie Braham also settled in Israel.
