They take turns at the bar.
Julien, the miraculous, and Loïc, his savior.
On this morning of Friday March 8, they were reunited again before the specially composed Paris Assize Court, at the trial of the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) which opened last week.
Traumatized, but alive.
On December 11, 2018, shortly before 8 p.m., Julien returned from university where he was enrolled in a master's degree in chemistry.
The Christmas market is in full swing.
His bike barely hooked up, the student is stopped by a man who asks him his first name and his religion.
“I told him
nothing at all
.
I was in a hurry, I had a lot of work,” he recalled in court this Friday morning.
Then he notices that his interlocutor is making a very rapid movement towards his abdomen.
It takes him a few moments to realize that he has just been stabbed.
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