Today’s Telegraph front page, showing a toddler being carried from Friday evening’s siege at a Paris supermarket in which four hostages died, will speak volumes to parents all over the world.
Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph front page: "Paris 9/1: France's terror nightmare" pic.twitter.com/aDPfZnwduU
— Telegraph Breaking News (@TelegraphNews) January 9, 2015
Parents in Paris must have felt at their most vulnerable last night as three days of attacks in France came to a dramatic end; with this particular and very powerful photograph reminding us that the world is not as safe as it once was, no matter where you are, or what you are doing.
Authorities also evacuated schools in a northern French town close to where brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, responsible for the killings at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, were under police siege at a printworks.
Corinne Rey, a cartoonist for the weekly newspaper, who was returning to the building after picking up her child from daycare, says she was forced to let the two masked, armed gunmen in when they brutally threatened her and her daughter. As a parent you would do anything to protect your child and we can’t imagine the pain she must be going through after letting the gunmen in, to keep her daughter safe.
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