PORTRAIT – In a sensitive and terribly precise story, the printer from Dammartin-en-Goële relates this January 9, 2015, when he crossed paths with the terrorists Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, before their deadly rampage was stopped by the assault of the forces order on his printing house.
In ten years, the idea of writing a book had already occurred to Michel Catalano. Not a book you would have found in a bookstore. But a self-published work, which he would have given to his family. “The testimony of a grandfather to his grandchildren. After all, I am a printer”he sums up, with a mischievous eye, in his office in Dammartin-en-Goële. The weight of a paper, its color – which he would have chosen “cream rather than white” -, his cover… This is an area he knows by heart.
His appalling face to face with Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, on January 9, 2015, caused Michel Catalano to lose his printing press, carried away by the 800 bullet holes from the Raid and GIGN assault. Since then, ten years have passed. He fought with the insurance companies to get her back on her feet. He responded to journalists who pressed him with questions. “For what ?”, «comment ?», “what if?”. Michel Catalano asked himself all these questions and found some answers. He linked himself with a
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