The World Trade Center towers collapsed, the Pentagon attacked, but above all 2,977 dead and a world falling into a new era. The September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, United States, left their mark on Americans and around the world.
It’s 3:30 pm in France when images of the two towers pierced by two planes begin to arrive. The images seem unrealistic, coming from another time and still, little by little, everyone is noticing. Twenty years later, everyone remembers what he was doing that day. “My boss had an office in the basement and all of a sudden he warns me that the towers have exploded”, testifies Arfi Larafa, a Parisian bartender.
This memory is the first of a whole generation to discover and experience, at this very moment, the first images of an attack. “When you are ten years old during this period, you experience your first global catastrophe. In 2016, I went to New York and met at the memorial”, testifies Anthony Pelé, an elementary school student in 2002. In the United States, the pain is still strong, the trial of the terrorists has not yet taken place. “This September 11th leaves an open wound in the hearts of Americans who have yet to recover from it”, adds Loïc de la Mornais, live from New York (United States) on the 8 pm news.