In an interview with France’s Le Monde newspaper, a survivor of the shootings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo described how the office dog, Lila, was there as the Kouachi brothers killed 12 of her colleagues.
Crime reporter Sigolène Vinson said the Cocker Spaniel, who wears a Charlie Hebdo collar, had greeted the staff members she loved as they arrived at the office after the holidays. Vinson said the sound of Lila running from room to room during the Jan. 7 attack helped her get through the terrible situation.
One of the gunmen told Vinson he wouldn’t kill her because she was a woman, and she kept still behind an office wall until she heard them flee. “As I lay there, not sure if they were really gone, shots rang out in the distance, in the street. And then I heard Lila with her tiny steps,” Vinson said. She thought Lila was searching for her favorite cartoonist, Jean Cabut, who was killed.
In Wednesday’s new, sold-out edition of Charlie Hebdo, Vinson wrote an ode to Lila. It read in part, “At Charlie Hebdo, we have a dog, a red Cocker Spaniel who signals to us that it’s OK, that we can get up now, that (the terrorists) have gone.” — Read it at the U.K.’s Telegraph
By Amy Sinatra Ayres
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