“When I got to the scene there were cordons… People didn’t want to tell me he was dead… One of his security guards was killed because he didn’t have time to take out his gun because the terrorists had Kalashnikovs…
I didn’t want to leave; I didn’t want to leave his body…
He died standing. He defended secularism; he defended Voltaire’s spirit… He was executed with his comrades, as he would say; not companions, comrades…”
Jeannette Bougrab, professor of law; and companion, Charb.