Tow #9 Attacks on Paris, France

For this week’s Text of the Week, it will cover the horrible terrorists attacks that happened in Paris, France. Oscar Lopez is the writer of this Newsweek’s update on Paris. Lopez  is also known for writing ten other articles dealing with struggles and events that occurred around the world. On late Friday night around 9:30, Guilluame Bonnet and Tristan Lebleu, both in early and late twenties, heard and witnessed the shootings and bombings of extremists groups towards innocent Parisian. Guilluame Bonnet had dinner with his parents then nearly a block away it was the sounds of guns going off, what many people guessed were fireworks instead. Fireworks quickly turned into people running, screaming, and hiding in nearby buildings, this then made Builluame fearful.  "That's when I started to feel really afraid” (Lopez 2), this fear building as later in the attacks he heard the terrorists opening fire on a restaurant that was extremely close to his home. That same time, Tristan Lebleu was exiting the soccer stadium, the location of two suicide terrorist bomber attacks and the death of four other individuals, with lots chaos and anxiety within the Parisians. The sense of reality hit Tristan when “Lebleu walked with a friend to the train station to take the train home, but none of the trains were running. Fielding dozens of calls and messages from worried relatives, Lebleu began the three-hour walk home,” (Lopez 8) hearing nothing but gun fire, explosions, and screaming as he traveled home. By having the experiences and thoughts from Gilluame and Tristan, readers were able to imagine the situation and the nightmare that they both were living. With the President Obama releasing a statement about the event, Snapchat creating a filter, and others showing their support for France in this hard time, it is obvious that something will be done to find the individuals who directed this act of cruel some killings and they will be prosecuted appropriately. Watching this event occur on this news brought sadness, confusion, anger, and most importantly sympathy for those who are there running to save their lives.


Link used: http://www.newsweek.com/survivors-paris-attacks-recount-tales-horror-394373