You will not have my hatred (Arte) – Tribute to the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015

In the days following the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015, journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Hélène was murdered at the Bataclan, posted an open letter on Facebook, a sublime response to barbarity and obscurantism. The text will go around the world…

“You will not have my hatred: there are two of us, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world… This little boy will insult you by being happy and free. Because no, you won't have his hatred either. » November 16, 2015, three days later the Bataclan attack, the journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Helene was among the victims, published a magnificent text on Facebook which became a book, then a play and a film.

Pierre Deladonchamps discovers Leiris by looking C to you (France 5) : « I was overwhelmed by his intelligence, his desire to rise above the instinct for revenge. » So much so that when he was asked to play him, he immediately accepted in an attempt to answer intimate questions: How to live after such a tragedy, how to build a father-son bond in the shadow of this tragedy? His questions are also ours, as the November 13, 2015 impacted us all psychologically.

You will not have my hatred, Friday November 8 at 9:55 p.m. on Arte

JULIEN BARCILON