As children: Samy Amimour, a Bataclan attacker; Lola Salines, who was 28 when she was killed in 2015Lola Salines was at the Bataclan to see one of her favourite bands. Samy Amimour went to the concert hall in eastern Paris with the aim of killing as many people as he could. Both were 28 when they died in the worst terrorist atrocity in France’s postwar history. Four years later, their respective fathers — Georges Salines and Azdyne Amimour — have come together to write a book about their experiences, in the hope of finding a way to combat the scourge of Islamist extremism. The two men make an unlikely pair: Salines, 62, began his career as a doctor before working in public health management; Amimour, 72, lived through war in his native Algeria as a young man and, after stints in the…

Source: The Times January 05, 2020 00:03 UTC