Less than 50 meters separate the Le Lamparo bar, where a firefighter was killed on Monday, December 23, from Ajaccio Cathedral, where his burial was celebrated five days later. On one side of the road, facing the flat sea, the terrace of the establishment, since closed, is empty. Candles have been placed on the outside counter. Six people were injured and another killed after a man fired in the evening, around 11:20 p.m., while this temple of golden Ajaccian youth was crowded. Ajaccians now make the sign of the cross when they pass in front of its facade.
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In front of this improvised altar, on the square in front of the cathedral, a guard of honor of fire soldiers was formed, while around ten religious brotherhoods gathered behind their banner to pay a final tribute, on December 28 , to Pierre-Louis Giorgi, 33, who died from his injuries. Many businesses in the city center had lowered their curtains, as a sign of solidarity, in the afternoon.
The large crowd, which speaks quietly of this ” trauma “is squeezed into the square adjoining the building to listen in silence to the mass and the speaking engagements under a clear sky. Finally the words click: “Are we going to lack the courage to react individually and collectively to this scourge which has been ruining the lives of Corsicans for too long? “, asks one of the speakers.
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