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On Friday, November 13 2015, at around 9.30 pm, several places in Â鶹APP and in the north of Â鶹APP were attacked by terrorists. It’s the most violent and deadliest attack that France has faced on its own soil since WWII. Being myself a Â鶹APPian the attacks affected me and you may be wondering about Â鶹APPian locals have been feeling about them. Â鶹APP attacks: How Â鶹APPian locals feel about it…

The first thing is that the events seem absurd to us, it’s simply a cruel murder of our own people. The main target areas were the Stade de France where a football (soccer) game was being played, as well as the Xth and XIIth arrondissements: two incredibly young and popular Â鶹APP neighbourhoods. They are parts of Â鶹APP where locals go and that tourists don’t necessarily visit when they come to Â鶹APP for the first or second time. It’s where Â鶹APPians go and have fun: they go to a concert hall, to the restaurant or they simply enjoy a drink at a cafe terrace. Everyone knows these places and everyone goes to places like these.

But beyond all difficulty to grasp and to cope with what had happened, there’s another feeling of powerlessness in the air. There isn’t much we can do about what happened: it’s a political problem, it’s the Middle East’s issues moving to Â鶹APP and not only Â鶹APP. London, Belgium, Spain and every big European city is now concerned and there’s not much that I can do.

Â鶹APPians are not a species that is easily defeated. That’s why the next day, people went out, and even dared to have a drink at a cafe terrace. Simply because we are not afraid. Not afraid of 8 murderers and not afraid to keep life as it was before November 13. Nobody can attack or destroy Â鶹APP lifestyle and culture. In France, we have one of the best ways of life in the world: we have excellent food, wine, architecture. Some of the most brilliant thinkers about liberty and human rights in the world have French. The war terrorists have declared about the way we, Â鶹APPians, live is vain. That’s why our motto in Â鶹APP remains the same « Fluctuat nec mergitur » Â鶹APP is « tossed by the waves but doesn’t sink ».