“A void” is never fully filled

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Sophie Side

Saturday, 7 October 2017 06:00

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The life has long since resumed its course to St. Bernard, but at the heart of the volunteer activities of the village, the tragic loss of 43 of its elderly ” has created a vacuum that was never filled completely “, according to the secretary of the factory, Huguette Camiré.

“The emptiness, it is still there after 20 years. It was hard to recruit in any committee. The golden Age is struggling to find replacements. It works now, but it’s idling, ” the one who works in the factory for 28 years.

Several of the victims were active retirees. “We knew them all. It was the world available, ‘ stresses to his side, the verger, Michel Leblond, who had worked to dig 18 holes in the cemetery. “It was a field of mines, here,” illustrates the man.

“It has created death “

“It was people who had a sense of belonging safe. Now, there are people elsewhere who have come to settle and who is involved. But it’s different, it’s not like the world of the place, ” adds Ms. Camiré.

This last recalls the heavy atmosphere that reigned in the village, when the community has been brutally deprived of a real part of its collective memory. “It created death. Everyone was touched “, remembers it. Some had lost by a single shot over a dozen members of their family.

Anonymity lost

To the immense grief was compounded by the strong presence of the media. The village had been attacked by the media from across the country and elsewhere. “Nobody we knew the 12 October, and 14 October, with half of the planet we knew,” remarked the lady.