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The tranquility with which Fabienne Loeb, director of a hotel located in the center of Strasbourg, spoke on the phone of the shooting that killed three people last night and injured 12 people only partially reflected the city's climate French. report in the morning of this Wednesday 12.
"Mother, do not worry … Life is returning to normal."
Symbol of Franco-German reconciliation, celebrated for its cathedral and Christmas market With nearly 500 editions, the city is ready to resist. [silêncio]
No, it is not hidden at home.] But is already feeling the first practical effects of the shock caused by it. invasion, by an armed man from a perimeter in which circulate 2 million people during the holiday season.
While flowers, candles and tickets with quotes like "I am Strasbourg" (paraphrase of "I am Charlie" created in the honor of the newspaper targeted by the terrorists in 2015) and "All united against the barbarism" accumulated on the places and the places where the shooter had made victims, the Hotels were facing dozens of reservation cancellations s and shortened stays.
"Fifty people, mostly foreigners, said that do not come or do not want to leave," lamented the director of a four-star establishment located in the street of the train station main.
"And it's only 10 o'clock"
In the streets, at this time of the year
The market, which within five weeks had shifted of about 250 million euros (1 billion rand), was closed at that time. fourth as well as many shops and restaurants in the historic center.
"I hosted a dozen people at the time of the attack," said the manager of a yogurt shop 50 meters from one of the points where Chérif C 29 years old, attacked pbaders-by
"We were hiding in the hallway, with the door closed and the light out, for five hours [das 20h à 1h] But we can not go down on things like that. to show that we are not savages, that we are going to win, we are in our country, which is free, "continued the merchant, who refused to identify.
Not far from there, retired Jean -Pierre Haus has adopted a similar speech while going for Christmas gifts for the family. "I will not change my habits even if I realize that I am surrounded by people capable of committing acts of madness of this nature." [19659002] The big question in the city was how an armed man could have accessed the the Christmas market, an area guarded by more than 500 agents among the National Police and Municipal Guard contingents, as well as private security guards – and in which everyone is searched at the same time. ;Entrance. In short, a robust device to discourage plans of attack such as those discovered in 2000 and 2016.
The Attorney General's office in Paris reported that Cherif Chekatt has 27 convictions in three different countries, was arrested more than once and is monitored.
No organization claimed responsibility for the attack, but a preliminary investigation was opened to investigate homicides, badbadination attempts with a terrorist order and a criminal terrorist badociation.
On Tuesday morning, police went to see Sherif in Strasbourg to conduct a search and seizure operation related to a case of badault with attempted murder and to take him away. at the police station to testify. He was not at the scene of the discovery of grenades and other weapons.
Four suspects were arrested a few hours after the attack.
On the Internet, in the early hours of Wednesday, a conspiracy theory stating that the attack would be a government-sponsored scenario aimed at banning popular protests such as "yellow vests", to which hundreds of thousands of French have joined since mid-November. However, even the opposition did not bite at the hook.
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