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The trial of the attacks of November 13 enters, Monday, May 23, in its last straight line, with the pleadings of the lawyers of the civil parties. France Télévisions journalists filmed victims of terrorist attacks meeting high school students to tell their stories.
A suitcase, children’s toys and a camera. Three banal everyday objects, yet they are loaded with a painful past. And these are the objects that these victims of terrorism have chosen to tell their story to high school students in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine). The process devised by the French Association of Victims of Terrorism is original. A face to face around an object. With her camera, Mélanie Berthouloux tells Emma about the day in 2009 when she was seriously injured in the face in an explosion in Cairo (Egypt). It was with this camera that she took the very last photos of her best friend, who died during the attack.
Nadia Mondeguer chose a suitcase to talk about the attacks. This luggage belonged to his daughter Lamia. Just returned from a weekend, the young woman of 30 years came out without undoing it to go have a drink on the terrace, November 13, 2015. She never came back. This story, she tells it to Ryan, 16 years old. “I once dared to open it, I immediately closed it”, said the victim’s mother. “I have no shame in talking about this shock, because it is part of me, it is part of our history”, she says. It is the turn of Samuel Sandler to evoke his son Jonathan and his two grandsons, shot dead by Mohammed Merah, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). Thanks to the toys of his grandsons, the grandfather tells Irene, a pupil of Première, about sorrow, about lack. “I am going to tell this story so that above all it will not be forgotten”, says the girl.