The socialist member of the European Parliament Christel Schaldemose was in Strasbourg at work, since Tuesday night was a terrorist attack in the city centre.
the 51-year-old Christel Schaldemose was quite close to being caught up in the violent shootings at the local christmas market. All luck would be, however, that she had reached home in his apartment, shortly prior to the offender, which the authorities believe is the 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt, shot on the loose on the christmassy crowd.
– I was gone from the parliament back home to my own apartment, which is located in the centre. To get to the apartment you go through the city centre, which is closed when there is the christmas market. The market is being held on an island, which makes it easier to make make sure. Therefore, should I also open my bag and display its contents to a cop.
The curious is that yesterday, when I had to show my bag, and the policeman shone down into it, I thought, ’well, we’ll get checked here’ and thought, ‘a terrorist attack can happen’, but I thought no more than that, says the member of the European Parliament.
in the past, there was the christmas market in the østfranske city far greater, and it reached beyond the island, which today is limited to. The change of the ring size is done after the terrorist attacks in Nice, Berlin and Brussels, and now it is no longer possible for cars to run over to the island, like that guests are required to show the contents of their bags.
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When Christel Schaldemose is in Strasbourg with the European Parliament, she shares apartment with a Swedish colleague. As fate would have it, that the Swedish colleague not reached to Strasbourg this week due to illness, and therefore could the two nordic colleagues do not comply with an otherwise solid tradition.
– Normally, we take off to the christmas market, when we are in Strasbourg in december. Typically, we do it on Tuesday night, where we go around and enjoy ourselves. But we did just not yesterday, when she was sick.
It also knocked me out a little, I immediately thought ’god, I could have been out there’, plus all the turmoil and trouble, which was the city, says christel Schaldemose.
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Christel Schaldemose was caught in his apartment on Tuesday evening, when Strasbourg was shut down in police search for the offender. The ufrivllige confinement gave her time to think over the situation, while at the same time she tried to keep track of his employees and colleagues, which was spread out over the entire city.
– the Idea of terrorism is there all the time. I know that it is far more dangerous for me to drive a car, but it does not change my feeling. It can sometimes make me angry that the terrorists have managed to create the here uncertainty. They have managed to change our lifestyles and our society. It annoys me. It was also why I got up in the morning, went to work and continued with my everyday life – for it must not prevent, says Christel Schaldemose.
the European Parliament met today, Wednesday, in Strasbourg. There was a meeting in the chamber at 12 o’clock, where the many members opened the meeting with a minute’s silence to commemorate the three people who lost their lives in Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.
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