2015-2025, 10 years of January 7
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The former president, at the Elysée during the attacks, talks about the need, despite astonishment and intimate emotion, to embody authority and seriousness.
The answer came halfway through the interview. The question? Faced with an event as dramatic and violent as the attack of January 7, 2015 on the premises of Charlie Hebdo, followed in the following hours and days by the assassination of a municipal policewoman and the deadly hostage-taking at the Hyper Cacher, a President of the Republic – François Hollande was at the time – a- Is there the possibility of being alone, even if only for five minutes, to let yourself be overwhelmed by emotion? Why not let the tears come? Let your sadness filter through? Explode your disgust and anger? Or just take the time to look out the window and let your thoughts wander? A memory with Cabu, this dirty drawing by Wolinski, this invigorating book by Uncle Bernard…
To have a small chance of putting a toe in the door of this presidential intimacy, a suggestion was made to François Hollande to choose another place
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