Simon Fieschi, the first man hit in the Paris attack, is dead

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He is the first man to have been affected during the attack targeting Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The former member of the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper Simon Fieschi died at the age of 41, as reported this Saturday October 19, 2024 by several media, including France Inter and Liberation. The information was confirmed withParis news by the Paris prosecutor’s office. Webmaster at the time of the attack, January 7, 2015, the man was suffering a severe handicap due to the injuries inflicted.

Plunged into a coma

According to the public prosecutor, his body was discovered on Thursday October 17, 2024. “An autopsy was ordered, the conclusions of which did not make it possible to determine the cause of death,” specifies the prosecution. A investigation is in progress.

Nearly nine years ago, Simon Fieschi was on the front lines when the Kouachi brothersChérif and Saïd, entered the editorial offices. A bullet affected his spinal cord, leaving irreversible marks. Immersed in the coma for a week, he had managed to wake up.

President of the Republic at the time of the events, François Hollande paid tribute to him on the social network “scars (…) which never heal” and addressing “(his) affection to his family”.

In 2020, the ex-community manager had mobilized the first memories following this ordeal, in a vibrant text published on the website of Charlie Hebdo. “I can neither move nor speak, only blink to communicate,” he wrote, depicting his paralysis. After several months of rehabilitation, he managed to walk again with the help of a crutch.

However, the wounds of the past have never been erased. “We were massacred with machine guns,” he recalled at the France Inter microphone in 2020, on the occasion of the trial inaugural of the attacks of January 7, 2015, in Paris and Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine). Simon Fieschi recently took part in the trial of jihadist Peter Cherif.

The latter was sentenced, Thursday, October 3, 2024, to life imprisonment for his influence with Chérif Kouachi. He was also accused of having kidnapped three humanitarian workers in 2011.

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