Ms Daligaud, who came with her Moroccan Muslim neighbour, Rajaa Hanine, said she wanted to be there “to show to those terrorists that they haven’t won, that their stupidity can’t divide us”. “I was sitting behind the bar when the firing began”, he said.
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Whatever happened near the Plaza de la Republique was enough to stir a panic, but fortunately, this was only a false alarm. “There’s a lot of confusion”. Police say two of his brothers participated in the attacks. One brother is dead and the other is in custody in Belgium, news agency AFP reported.
France 24 journalist and former Adelaide resident Annette Young was dining out with a colleague when the false alarm was sparked.
For starters, I scoured a few USA newspaper websites to see how local French communities and ex-pats might be responding to the story. Police carefully searched the bags of the many attendees before letting them in.
Finally, KHQ lists ways for people in our region to help victims of the attacks.
CNN’s Cooper said he was at McDonald’s when he heard the commotion.
The official called it a moment of collective panic, and had no information of any threats to the area. Police vehicles soon arrived.
St Pancras global ground to a halt as hundreds of travellers put a momentary stop to their journeys, a long queue of people waiting to take the Eurostar to France falling motionless.
It is thought the bangs heard could have been fireworks.
“Hundreds of people just started running for their lives”.
And it’s one I’ll never forget.
“There was a cafe that was open, people had been sitting outside enjoying a drink. There’s now overturned chairs and broken glasses all over the floor”.
Families were paying tribute to the 132 victims with a moving gathering at Place de la Republique when screams broke out and a stampede of mourners fled the scene.
Student Gabrielle Dys, 20, originally from SC, in the U.S., said: “People from so many different communities and ethnic backgrounds are together here today”.
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“You’re trying to figure out what’s happening and there isn’t a lot of information because people aren’t really sure what’s happening”, she said.
