Some people know me for having seen me arrest Manuel Valls on the platform of the Gare du Nord on Sunday November 15, 2015 two days after the attacks. The prime minister inflicted on me in the face of the questions I put to him, searching for my daughter that day, were: "Not in front of the cameras." Conversely, no word of empathy or compassion these feelings do not reside with this kind of political figures.
I am the son of a Norman-born mechanic who worked in a district of Lille.
We were 3 brothers and had a normal childhood with normal studies and although we weren't rolling gold we never lacked for anything. One of my uncles was burned alive in a tank at the start of the war 40 the other was taken prisoner, escaped 11 times before being deported to Tréblinka from where he returned "Grand Invalide de Guerre", my father being the youngest could not be incorporated but was a Resistance to German oppression (I still have his Resistance card which I am very proud of) So we come from a family with strong characters. I got married, I had 2 wonderful children who I tried to raise out of love for a job well done, respect and the Catholic religion. My wife, struck down by cancer of the aerodigestive tract, left us on June 18, 2014, leaving me alone with a twenty-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old son.
November 13, 2015 everyone remembers the date of the deadliest attack in France since the last world war!
My daughter had set her spotlights for the concert and then went to have a drink in the nearby cafe. From the start of the shooting she wanted to join her post against the advice of the owner of the cafe and to whom she replied "my friends are inside I can't let them down" (this was reported to me by the owner). , a copper plaque in honor of my daughter is still riveted to the bar!).
What a difference with General Bruno Leray who declared, regarding the soldiers on duty, to justify his orders not to open fire "it is unthinkable to put the soldiers in danger in the hypothetical hope of saving other people"!
She was killed in this grim compound listening only to her courage to try to go and defend her friends
So I know I'm not the only one going through this, but politicians, we are not asking you to comment on these crimes: WE ARE ASKING YOU TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND TO REACT and you have the means AND TO STOP THESE CRIMINAL ACTS so that France becomes again France as we knew it in the past because it becomes unlivable!
Between revenge and writing, I chose to write
In this book "not in front of the cameras" I explain why these attacks took place and could have been avoided; in the interview I did on Sud Radio https://youtu.be/J6YGMRrQan8 I see the possibility of a civil war; others have also done so.
As a victim I have met many politicians; I will never forget the words of a former minister while I had been looking for my daughter for 48 hours in all the hospitals of Paris "but Monsieur Jardin do not worry you will be compensated, because in France you are lucky, the victims attacks are compensated ”and to which I replied:“ you have studied yourself to say such bullshit? I would rather live in a country where attacks are not perpetuated rather than in a country which goes so far as to compensate terrorists!
So yes I support the courageous signatories of this warning https://patrickjardin.fr/soutien-aux-militaires
I ask the government to react by quickly taking the necessary measures to preserve France and the French, to cancel ALL VELLEITES SANCTIONS towards the signatories of this Tribune, and to restore the unjustly sanctioned General Piquemal to his rights.
I ask the government to react by quickly taking the necessary measures to preserve France and the French, to cancel ALL VELLEITES SANCTIONS towards the signatories of this Tribune, and to restore the unjustly sanctioned General Piquemal to his rights.