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Between fear and defiance: Parisians reflect on terrorist attacks

2015-01-10 36 Dailymotion

The City of Light has experienced some of the darkest days in its recent history. <br /><br /> A police cordon remains in place around the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, and France remains on the highest level of alert.<br /><br /> The experience of a terrorist attack on their doorstep has left some Parisians rattled.<br /><br /> “It’s no longer like before,” said one woman. “You go out, you go out of your home and you don’t know whether you’ll come home. And that makes you afraid”. <br /><br /> Others say it won’t break their spirit.<br /><br /> “ What happened is tragic,” explained another resident. “But we will rise up, we’ll go back to before, and those people won’t destroy us.”<br /><br /> Police maintain a strong presence in Dammartin-en-Goele, the small village 30 kilometres outside Paris which found itself the focus of international media attention during the manhunt for the two main suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings.<br /><br /> A floral tribute continues to grow outside the offices of the satirical magazine in Paris. Staff members who

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