'We Still Have Words' is a dialogue between two men whose child, one an extremist and the other a victim, who died in a Paris terrorist attack.
, it became terribly clear how little he and Lola had in common. Both died that night, Lola of gunshot wounds and Samy and the two other extremists in a hail of bullets and explosions after police stormed the building.
“I wanted to talk with him about what happened, then to try and explain and to understand, to see how he views things,” Amimour told the Associated Press, seated alongside Salines at the same publishing house where Lola“To tell him my vision, to explain and to share this pain, this sadness with him. And then, to explain to him that I am not part of it, I’m not a terrorist. My family is not a family of terrorists. And to explain to him the path my son took to end in radicalization,” Amimour said.
While the Salines family was surrounded by Lola’s friends, the Amimours were largely alone in their grief. But he, like Salines, believes people like her should be allowed to return to France, especially the children. French public opinion is largely against repatriating Islamic State recruits, but the government has slowly been bringing some home to stand trial.
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