It didn't take long for sport to regain its rights. The day after the car attack which struck New Orleans (Louisiana), in the United States, the Sugar Bowl, the traditional university football match on 1is January, postponed the day before, took place under heavy police surveillance. In the Superdome, the 60,000 fans observed a minute of silence before kickoff. “There is no question of letting fear paralyze us, said the state's Republican governor, Jeff Landry. Otherwise, the terrorists win. » The Notre Dame (Indiana) team, which was opposed to the University of Georgia, won the match.
Bourbon Street, the street lined with cafes, had already reopened. This is where the perpetrator of the attack, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a former soldier living in Texas, drove his pick-up into the crowd on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The street has since been cleaned by the health services, while agents of the FBI, the federal police, were still busy collecting clues.
In the city where jazz is king, even in the funeral parades, a brass orchestra plays in front of a makeshift memorial made of yellow tulips and green pearl necklaces, emblematic of carnival, placed in front of fourteen candles – fourteen as the number of dead – the fifteenth being the attacker, according to a revised report on Thursday, which also mentions thirty-five injured.
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