The slightest noise makes them jump.
A balloon that explodes, a champagne cork that pops or a fireworks display that goes off and all the accumulated anxiety comes flooding back.
Returning to their workplace was no longer possible.
Their life as a couple suffered, when it did not implode, and their relationships with their children were deeply affected.
Thus survive – this is the term they use – the former employees of the Super U of Trèbes (Aude) who came to testify this Monday, January 29 before the specially composed Assize Court of Paris.
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On March 23, 2018, they were in their store when Radouane Lakdim, who had just killed a man and seriously injured another in Carcassonne, burst in.
There, he killed their friend and colleague Christian Medves, 50, shot a client, Hervé Sosna, before assassinating Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame.
This ordeal has broken them as much as united them.
“We have a connection.
We are a family, a family of broken people for sure, but when we look at each other we say that we are good together and I think that will stay forever,” says Charlotte, 33, former employee of the Drive.
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