Gair Rhydd 1066 - 23rd November 2015

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gair rhydd | freeword Cardiff ’s student weekly Issue 1066 Monday 23rd November 2015 Also in this issue

Advice: The benefits of running and exercise P9>>

“You’re not safe here, get home now”: Paris-based students tell their stories of terrorist attacks

Comment: Does consumerism go too far at Christmas? P15>>

• Last weekend’s attacks on the city’s cultural heartland left 129 people dead • Student on study abroad year tells Gair Rhydd: “The city’s on tenterhooks” • Welsh UoL student: “It makes us all feel like potential targets” EXCLUSIVE Anna Lewis, Joanna Beck & Dan Heard

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ast week the world stopped to honour the 129 people killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris. Now students studying in the French capital tell Gair Rhydd of their experiences living through the biggest attack in Europe since 2004. Third year Cardiff University student Imogen Flatau was visiting friends in

Paris at the time of the attacks. She described how she first became aware of the situation whilst in a restaurant in St Michel near the Notre Dame, in the city’s fifth arrondissement. Flatau said: “It was after we had finished our main course when one of the girls looked at her phone. She had a lot of missed calls from someone. We all then checked ours and we had the same. A lot of missed calls and several texts. We then knew something had happened.” Hannah Williams, another Cardiff student currently studying on a year

abroad in Paris, was with Flatau and her friends at the time of the incident. Talking to Gair Rhydd she stated: “Naturally, we were all terrified and when it was confirmed [it was a terrorist attack] we were petrified.” The attacks began with an explosion outside the Stade de France, after an international football match between France and Germany. Diners in restaurants in the tenth and eleventh arrondissements also came under fire from armed gunmen, killing 15 and five people respectively.

Pictured: Above: The Parisian skyline (Photographer: Ryan Hurril) Below: Tributes at Place de la Republique (Photographer: Roberto Maldeno)

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Politics: What did the G20 talks in Turkey achieve? P20>>

Science: Self-driving cars by 2020? P22>>


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