Rescapé du Bataclan, the young man committed suicide two years later in a psychiatric clinic, prey to a hypochondriaque delirium and a severe depression.
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Guillaume Valette came physically free from the Bataclan. When Alain, his father, found him in the middle of the night in Paris, the young man was “covered with blood, frozen and exhausted”. But without apparent injuries. Tuesday, October 26, this septuagenarian with the enveloping voice, however, came to evoke, like so many other parents before him, the memory of his son at the trial of the attacks of 13-November. Guillaume committed suicide two years after seeing hell too close and was recognized in 2019, as the e victim of these attacks. He was 31 years old.
“Guillaume has not received bullets in the body, but invisible bullets, who killed him, gently but surely, start the father, while appears on the screen a photo of the son, silhouette Chétive posing by a spring day in front of the Louvre pyramid, an audio helmet around the neck. In the two years that followed, his psychic state deteriorated, like a gangrene. On November 19, 2017, it is In a chamber of the Clinic Jeanne d’Arc, in Saint-Mandé, that he was found hanged. “
On November 13, 2015, Guillaume was in the pit when the first shots sounded. He told his relatives this meeting with death which, he did not know, had entered him. The Father returns the story of the Son: “He went on the ground and saw on his left a girl staring at the ceiling. He understood that she was dead. His body was taken from a trembling crisis . A young woman at her side tight her hand and told her, “Calm up, it’s going to go.” If she’s still alive, we thank her for this gesture of tenderness in full chaos towards our child. ” p>
“The life before, it’s over”
Taking advantage of a crowd movement between two gusts, Guillaume landed on a cluster of people mowed by the bullets – he will describe atory as “human mud” -, try to “hide his head in the entanglement Bodies “, then eventually shut up with other spectators in a lodge until the intervention of the police forces. “For more than two hours, Guillaume heard everything. Which has haunted it for a long time, they are the cries of the wounded.” When his family finds him in the middle of the night, he says, “The life before, C is finished. “
The father now takes his account the story of the long descent into his son’s hell. The following months resemble those experienced and told about this trial by many survivors of 13-November. The young man presents all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress: hypervigilance, nightmares, anxiety … he does not go out almost more, avoids the closed places, is affected by the slightest fact, each new attack awakens his anxieties.
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