(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on those around them, parents, grand-parents, children.
One woman lost her sister in the terrorist attack at the [Bataclan]. She has since lost her father, dead of a broken heart, he having spent the last five years of his life sitting in the same place, holding a photograph of the daughter he refused to believe was dead.
He stopped eating, he didn’t bother to wash. “He lost his taste for life.”
