“I should have returned her child”: at the trial of the Nice attack, the trauma of the survivors

” I need to talk to you. The psychiatrist wants me to tell you what I saw. I don’t want to because it can hurt you. You can’t imagine…” In August 2018, for the first time since the attack of July 14, 2016 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), Frédéric asked his wife, Sylvie, if she agreed to welcome the images that haunted him. . On the Promenade des Anglais that evening, they were together, as a family with their two daughters and came back alive, says this woman at the helm of the special Assize Court of Paris. But after the white truck appeared, after the bodies hit before their eyes and their frantic flight to hide in a building hall, Frédéric left alone to look for their car. “It was unfortunately parked on the trajectory”, slips Sylvie.