Three followers of radical Islam attacked a Paris club on November 13, 2015, killing 90 people. Two other groups of attackers in other places in and around the French capital killed another 40 people, and the evening with 130 victims was indelibly etched in the minds of the French.
Dewilde was among those who survived the attack and told the youth about his experiences, according to the newspaper Le Parisien. He explained his activities by conveying a “belief in tolerance and rejection of all forms of violence”. The father of three coped with the trauma by writing books with his own illustrations, four in total. The first of them was published in Czech in 2017 under the title My Bataclan.
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The Life for Paris organization, which brings together survivors of the attack, reported on the cartoonist’s suicide on Sunday. The group, which has 650 members, described the cartoonist as one of the “pillars” of the community.
During the November 2015 attacks alone, 130 people died. In the trial with the attackers, however, the representatives of the survivors assert the figure of 132 victims, because two people have already committed suicide. According to this logic, Dewilde became the 133rd victim of the worst terrorist attack in French history.
Salah Abdeslam, a French terrorist of Moroccan descent who was one of the masterminds of the 2015 Paris and 2016 Brussels attacks, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in France.
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