Cashier’s grim goal during 2015 Paris terror attack: ‘Survive’

(AFP) It was a Friday afternoon, and Zarie Sibony was at her check-out counter at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on the eastern edge of Paris when a man wielding two Kalashnikov rifles burst through the doors.

“I heard a shot on my right, and that was when the terrorist killed Mr Braham, who was waiting in my line,” Sibony said, recalling the debut of “the most horrible four hours of my life.”

Five years after the attacks against the Jewish supermarket and the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, Sibony will testify Tuesday in the trial of 14 people suspected of helping the three gunmen.

“I remember thinking that I had only one goal: to survive, to get out of there alive. I was going to do whatever it took,” she said.

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