Away From Home…
CoExist is what it says the photo of the poster we took today in Paris, when visiting Institut du Monde Arabe. A fine statement after the events in Copenhagen – and Paris. On the wall of the building was written ”nous sommes tous Charlie”. Inside was an impressive exhibition, Le Maroc contemporain, photos, paintings, videos, carpets, dresses, sculptures, a huge effort has been done to capture culture and soul of an Arab country. The exhibition can be seen until March 1st.
We arrived in Paris sunday morning after having been watching television the whole evening and most of the night. As well as been standing at the windows of our fourth floor appartment to see and listen. In the street people were walking quickly away from the nearby Nørreport Station, the blue lights from the police cars were flashing on the other side of the park and the sound of police car sirens were constant. Horrifying!
In Paris the attack was on the front page of the newspaper Libération: Vi er danskere = nous sommes danois, the text put on a photo taken outside the synagogue, where Jewish Dan Uzan was killed. In Le Monde Danish author Jens Christian Grøndahl conveyed his impressions from the moving memorial and in Le Figaro Danish-Syrian Naser Khader, former member of the Danish parliament gave a personal interview on how he grew up in the Danish society, so much different from Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, the man believed to be behind the killing of Uzan and Finn Nørgaard, Danish filmmaker, on that black weekend in Copenhagen.
CoExist!
