Rue Copernic attack: “We expected more support, we were left in total ignorance”

They are a handful, descendants of the four people killed on October 3, 1980 by the explosion of a bomb rue Copernic in Paris, children of injured victims and themselves survivors or former faithful of the synagogue, to come forward this Thursday morning at the bar of the Special Assize Court of Paris. Forty-two and a half years later, at the helm of this trial where the box of the only accused remains empty, they come to testify to the violence of this terrorist and anti-Semitic attack. With modesty but an emotion intact, despite the decades that have passed. “He marked our history with a stroke”, will formulate one, speaking of “buried trauma”.