…… First published in December 2015 ……

When I went up to Paris several days after the Paris attacks for a meeting, I took a taxi (or rather a private car) driven by a young man. I asked him if he had been working on Friday the 13th and he told me he was in the 3rd arrondissement when the news came out on the radio and he drove immediately to the area where the attacks were happening and started picking people up in the street and driving them home.

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