FRENCH PRESIDENT: ATTACKS TARGETED ‘YOUTH IN ALL ITS DIVERSITY’
Fanny Minot, 29, went straight from her job at a TV newsmagazine show to the Bataclan on Friday night. By Sunday, the show’s host, Ali Baddou, would be mourning her death on air. Minot, 29, was an editor at the show Le Supplement. Artistic and free-spirited, she enjoyed making independent movies — and above all, enjoyed new experiences, her friend Stephen Fox told The Associated Press. “She was such a loving, compassionate person, with such an adventurous view on life,” said Fox, 27, who credits her energetic outlook with inspiring him to get his post-college life in gear by going to nursing school. Justine Moulin, 23, of Paris, had a passion for travel. She studied at the SKEMA Business School in Paris and planned to attend its satellite campus in Raleigh, N.C., according to The News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh. Moulin was killed while having dinner at Le Petit Cambodge, her favourite restaurant, according to news reports. “She was always smiling. She wanted to travel the world,” friend Julie de Melo was quoted as saying in the News & Observer.
Elodie Breuil, 23, a design student, had gone to the Bataclan concert hall with about a half-dozen friends, said her brother, Alexis, who confirmed his younger sister’s death to Time magazine. The friends scattered in the shooting. Alexis told the magazine that his sister and mother had marched in Paris after the attack early this year on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “They did it to show their support,” he said. Pierro Innocenti, 40, of Paris, was a manager at his family’s Italian restaurant on the outskirts of the city. His last post on his Facebook page was a photo of the Bataclan’s sign advertising the Eagles of Death Metal show, with a caption Innocenti added: “Rock!” Innocenti helped run Livio, an eatery known for attracting a star-studded clientele to its spot in a Paris suburb. A friend, Olivier Cagniart, told Vanity Fair Italia that Innocenti “always had a thousand new projects to carry out, experiences to have. Watching him in action made you want to hug him and tell him, ‘Thanks for all your energy.’ ”
Guillaume Decherf, 43, had written about the latest album by Eagles of Death Metal late last month for French culture magazine Les Inrocks and was at the band’s concert Friday night. Vincent Boucaumont said he had known Decherf for about 25 years, since the two were in high school, when they would go down into the basement of Boucaumont’s grandfather’s house to play their guitars together. Both music lovers, they had a radio show focusing on hard rock and heavy metal music for two years after high school, he said.