I WAS THERE........AND WE WERE CHARLIE
This was the first march I have ever been to. Jerome added, and « I hope the last ». He was right and the question that was foremost in my mind « Could this ever happen again? » I have lived France in adversity many years ago when the population rose to vote against Le Pen (far right) in the final round for the elections for the President of France. This was an invisible vote but France was there and voted massively against Le Pen. (2002) Yesterday was something else. No-one could not have been touched by these events. For three days we lived glued to our radios, television sets or Internet following step by step news « in live » Charlie Hebdo to begin with then the atrocities in the Kasher supermarket. 17 people were killed. We were scared. On the Thursday I crossed Paris on foot trying to seize the atmosphere in the different quartiers. It was as if a black cloud had descended upon us. Faces were torn with grief, people looking at the pavement and even the shops where sales had