"There we are, we are open again We are thinking about all the victims, this has been the driver behind reopening the shop,"
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By Reuters | March 17, 2015
The Paris kosher supermarket where four hostages were killed in January by an Islamist gunman reopened on Sunday morning to "show that life is stronger than barbarity," supermarket officials and France's interior minister said.
The Jan. 9 attack on the Jewish foodstore by Amedy Coulibaly, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and also killed a policewoman in a separate attack, had been coordinated with two other gunmen who killed 12 people at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo two days earlier.
"There we are, we are open again," the new manager, Laurent Mimoun, told local media, wearing a black kippa and visibly moved in the supermarket, completely refurbished and bearing no trace of the deadly attack.
"We are thinking about all the victims, this has been the driver behind reopening the shop," he said.
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