Commemorations of the January 2015 attacks continue, after Charlie Hebdo and the policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe killed in Montrouge, a new ceremony is planned for Thursday January 9 in front of the Hypercacher at Porte de Vincennes, in Paris, the initiative of Crif (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France). A ceremony to mark 10 years, to the day, of the hostage taking in this convenience store.
On January 9, 2015, terrorist Amedy Coulibaly killed four people, all Jewish, before being shot dead during the Raid and BRI assault. Ten years later, the Jewish community is still deeply affected by the tragedy. In front of the supermarket, repainted white, there is a usual ballet of delivery trucks and customers entering and leaving the store. Only a discreet plaque on the facade, high up, recalls the names of the four victims of January 9, 2015.
Laurence has just done her shopping there. “I don’t need the plaque to remember it. My father-in-law’s cousin died in the attack, she says. The gate was almost closed. He wanted to buy what we call hallot, which is bread for Shabbat. The saleswoman told him: ‘No, no, no, you must not go in!'”
“There was the terrorist right next door. He insisted and the terrorist raised the curtain to let him in and he got killed because he bought bread.”
Laurence, a regular at Hypercacherat franceinfo
Eva did not know the victims but has forgotten nothing about that terrible Friday afternoon. “I had just had a little girl two weeks before, I saw the Hypercacher alert on television. It was total horror, she remembers. My husband worked right next door, we frequented this store, so we knew that there would be really people in the store, because before Shabbat, before picking up the children from school, people do their shopping. It was terrible.”
-Ten years later, although the employees have all changed, the residents of the neighborhood remain loyal to the Hypercacher, not without, sometimes, a certain apprehension. “We don’t feel particularly insecure, but when we enter a kosher store, we pay a little more attention to what’s happening around us,” confides a customer.
“We are careful but attacks are commonplace for us unfortunately, we live with them.”
A regular customer of Hypercacherat franceinfo
And while Stars of David have just been sprayed a few dozen meters away, Patricia cannot contain her emotion. “More than the hostage-taking, it is everything that is happening now that poses a problem, she believes. I was born in France, I love France, but I believe that if this continues, I will be forced to leave, and that pains me, because I didn’t think that would happen one day. I feel like now everyone is against the Jews. I’ll come to the commemorations, I’ll of course buy Charlie Hebdo, but I’m actually having trouble. I no longer feel empathy.” A feeling that has increased tenfold, according to her, since the resumption of the war in Gaza.
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