“She tells how she lives it, nine years later”: a young victim of the attack on July 14 in Nice is on the radio, an overwhelming testimony

She was happy. Similarly, She is “destroyed”. Similarly, It took an evening, that of July 14, 2016, to change your life. Meanwhile, Kimberley was 16 when the truck failed to overthrow it. Furthermore, A barely man pushed her to save her, sacrificing his own life. However, An atrocious evening that she shares in full in a podcast ⁽¹⁾ Signed here Azur (ex-France Bleu).

Sébastien Germain met Kimberley during the trial. “I found it very touching. She liked to talk, I liked to question her“recalls the journalist. Knowing that the testimonies of adolescents on the tragedy are rare, the idea of a podcast is born.

Thirty minutes to relive this painful moment. Kimberley traces the scene there. “She saw the terrorist’s smile, the pleasure he had to be driving this truckhe narrates. She tells how she saw it, nine years later. She “she tells how she lives is destroyed, has only one desire: to die.” The girl made several suicide attempts and feels guilty that her savior died in her place.

Today she is 25 years old. In the podcast. you hear his mother who, for the first time that evening, had left her daughter to go out alone and who feels a little guilty.

For Sébastien Germain, the goal was also to remember that the victims must not be forgotten. Now Kimberley wants to meet Mohamed Ghraieb, the friend of the terrorist incarcerated in Grasse. The procedures are underway.

1. Integrated into the “Crimes and Testimonies” series by Radio France. To listen to on Francebleu.fr and on Podcast platforms.