Posted on 01/07/2015 11:30:11 AM PST by maggief
Corrine Rey and her daughter saw two other cartoonists being killed
They threatened her into giving them entry code for the office building
She says men 'who spoke perfect French' claimed to be Al Qaeda terrorists
Attackers were reportedly heard shouting: 'the Prophet has been avenged'
The masked men asked people's names before killing editor and cartoonist
'There were several corpses on the floor,' said office worker from building
He entered room right after attackers had gone to see 'blood everywhere'
A young mother and cartoonist who survived the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris today said she had let the suspected Al Qaeda killers into the magazine office.
Corrine Rey said she had returned from picking up her young daughter from a kindergarten when she was confronted by two heavily armed men wearing balaclavas.
'I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us,' said Ms Rey, who draws under the name 'Coco'.
'They said they wanted to go up to the offices, so I tapped in the code,' said Ms Rey, referring to the digi-code security system on the inter-phone.
Miss Rey and her daughter hid under a desk, from where they saw two other cartoonists being executed.
'They shot Wolinski and Cabu,' she said, 'It lasted five minutes. I had taken refuge under a desk.
She said the men 'spoke French perfectly' and 'claimed they were 'Al Qaeda terrorists'.
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So I’m curious. How many would it take for you to let someone kill your child? Just one?
....”They can’t secure the building with guns.France outlawed guns. I think even the police are unarmed. seems like the laws in France leave most people sitting ducks “....
Well then they’re going to have more of this...Islamists have no problem getting guns and whatever they want.
I agree with you.
When you’re ready to get out of the “LET’S FIND SOMEBODY TO BLAME” mode because part of the problem might even be you...
Me too, I would have done it for someone else’s kid too (as would everyone else).
sorry to say, your hyperbole isn’t big enough to hide your cowardice.
You think they will get arrested? After killing two police officers? Not so sure, mon ami.
Hey it was Al Qaida. Remember Al Qaida found ISIS to be too extreme for their tastes so they do have standards. /sarc
Culturally we westerners do consider kids higher on an “innocence” scale than adults. That is one thing that separates us from the jihadi crowd, who will suit up a toddler to be a suicide bomb.
Don’t project your personal weakness on everybody.
I have not been in that situation, but I would not RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING admit that I would trade 12+ lives for my own and a child.
This is how the Nazis ran Auschwitz, with Jews doing much of the heavy lifting, literally, as in gas-chamber body removal. Or playing in the orchestra meant to lull the next victims into the showers.
The Nazis found Jews who would do ANYTHING to live another week or month.
BUT NOT ALL OF THEM!
Again, don’t project your personal weakness on everybody else!
Right.
How about you roll back the time machine and step right in there, and show us. Otherwise we don’t know if your output is the product of Dutch courage or what.
“So you would trade 12+ coworkers lives for your life and your child, okay.”
Yeah,,, all of yours to save my one. And hand em a map to your office. And clear jams in their AK. Then id take my one that I saved for some Chicken nuggets and ice cream. Id tell the grief counselor all about it. In 40 years id get interviewed about it for the history channel. Right before the camera switched on, Id pull a nose hair to fake a tear.
Next question dillweed.
Right on!
A fiction writer does not live in the real world, where mothers protect their young at any cost.
I’m not a soldier. I’m and American: by philosophy, not just birth.
Travis is much more politic than these others deserve.
lol
I’ll take that as a “yes”.
So what should her penance be... draw anti Islamic cartoons in an open booth until they shoot her?
Sometimes the self-devouring sentiment is so thick here it can be cut with a knife.
I have a history of being very obstinate in the face of people pointing guns at me.
That’s why they should not give the entry code to a mom with a baby. This is not rocket science.
You get an old paratrooper to guard the door. Not a mom with a baby.
This is a war, and this is how the enemy fights. The office had already been bombed. They might as well have left the door open, as to give the code to a mom with a baby.
THAT is a sensible idea. As such it will be quickly assailed.
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