# November 13 Paris attacks: Parents mourn daughters Anna and Marion - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121240058732671435 - Source account: [@jon_delorraine](https://x.com/jon_delorraine) - Source language: French - Target language: English - Duration: 9:10 - Published: 2026-11-13 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/fr/attentats-du-13-novembre-le-deuil-des-parents-d-anna-et-marion.md ## Transcript [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=3) I have my two girls. And you have nothing left. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=8) There's no point in this. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=12) Good luck. Thank you very much, ma'am. Éric Pétard had two daughters, Marion and Anna. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=21) His only two children, aged 24 and 27. On November 13, they had dinner at the Petit Cambodge. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=31) Neither of them escaped the terrorists' indiscriminate violence. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=37) Twelve days later, this father tries to take a step toward an impossible grieving process. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=45) I'm in the process of moving my— my daughter's apartment to Marion's, um, who was cowardly murdered on Friday night. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=53) That's it, that's what I'm doing. It's not easy, is it? [0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=57) Of course it's not, we don't come here lightheartedly. [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=62) She was, um— she was finishing her, her studies in June, in, in June. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=68) And then, well, we would have come in June, That'd be normal, but there. [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=74) You'll be voting soon. Well, you'll put on your ballot for the victims of November 13, whom I represent. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=82) For now, Éric's immeasurable pain is expressing itself as anger. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=88) When you go to vote, huh, you just have to put for Anna, Marion and the 128 other victims. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=96) There you go. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=99) The day after the attacks, after hours of anguish, that Éric Pétard and his wife Sylvie learned both daughters had died. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=109) All they have left are the memories and these few objects. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=115) Yeah, will that work? We'll check the bike over there. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=119) And is that a—are those paintings? Yeah. We have to take them down because… [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=128) Anna and Marion are about to ask for the bill from the waiter at Le Petit Cambodge. when the terrorists' Kalashnikovs mow them down. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=139) They were enjoying a quiet moment as sisters, two sisters who were very close. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=146) So what are we doing tonight? Wait, let me think. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=153) Thinking or writing? [2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=158) A week after the attacks, their parents' butcher shop in Loir-et-Cher had become a place of pilgrimage. [2:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=168) I can't believe we're actually doing this. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=171) I got some stuff to help me relax, but even so… [2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=175) We have to, we have to have the smiles they had, uh. [3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=180) Yeah, exactly. They had a sense of humor. [3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=184) They were so beautiful. [3:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=189) Eugénie was Anna's best friend. Together, they'd gotten into all sorts of trouble. [3:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=200) Anna was, uh, more— a little crazy, a little… [3:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=206) More eccentric. More eccentric. Marion was a little more reserved, but but she still had that, that streak of madness that— Once she knew people, she, well, she was, um, she was like Anna. [3:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=218) Yeah. And so, um, they both had a passion. [3:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=224) Marion's was music. She wanted to make it her career. [3:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=227) And Anna's was drawing. Anna wanted to live off her passion. [3:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=233) Just before she died, she'd just landed a job as a graphic designer in Barcelona. [4:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=243) What I think I'll miss most about Anna is our Christmas drawings for each other. [4:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=249) We never gave Christmas gifts. We gave each other presents for our birthdays. [4:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=252) But at Christmas, we'd draw for each other. [4:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=255) And, and this year, I won't get a drawing. [4:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=267) The whole region was devastated by the deaths of the two sisters. [4:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=271) In their village, A school will be built in a few months. [4:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=275) It will bear their name. [4:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=289) A few kilometers from Blois, in the countryside, a nineteenth-century farm. [4:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=296) This is where the two young women spent their teenage years. [5:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=301) Sylvie? Here, put it over there. There. Oh, not that much. [5:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=307) Just put it in the oven. [5:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=313) Just a month ago, Éric and Sylvie Pétard were leading a peaceful life here, parents proud of their two daughters' paths. [5:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=323) To secure their future, they had worked all their lives, six days a week. [5:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=329) There, my grandfather was on welfare, he started here, and my father carried on. [5:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=333) Then, well, now I'm here. I was trying to keep this going for, for my children's happiness. [5:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=341) Well, it's all over. We'd planted all these trees you can see here, uh, fruit trees, grapevines, to, uh, to grow table grapes. [5:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=351) All of that, so our daughters had enough. [5:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=356) Well, there you go, it all fell apart. [6:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=367) It's collapsed. We no longer have them. All we have left is material wealth that, that may serve us for the rest of our lives, perhaps, but with a rather deep bitterness. [6:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=385) A little, a little corner of happiness that disappears. [6:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=392) For the past few days, Éric and Sylvie have decided to reopen their butcher shop and deli. [6:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=398) Getting back to work to try to escape the unbearable. [6:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=405) Today is their day off, in a house reminding them of their two kids. [6:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=411) There, the piano, it's here and, uh, my daughter said, " I'll teach you how to, to play music, uh, when you retire." [7:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=420) Well, there you go, she won't be able to take me, take me, take me away. [7:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=425) All my life, I've dreamed of doing a little of it. [7:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=439) Video They were the most beautiful girls in the world and the kindest. [7:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=448) Of course, I squabbled with them, uh, with them, but, uh, it was never anything serious. [7:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=455) To them, everyone was beautiful, everyone was kind, since that's what they're taught at school nowadays, so, uh. [7:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=462) But anyway, when it comes to life, that's not how it is, huh. [7:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=465) Not everyone's beautiful, and not everyone's kind, huh. [7:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=470) It's hard to fall asleep for now. Their daily lives are now punctuated by rituals to try to ease an absence that grows more painful each day. [8:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=480) Well, we kiss our daughters every day, but on paper, there you go. [8:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=486) We mourn them every day. We can't, can't, can't swallow this. [8:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=492) We'll never accept this. And me, the more time passes, the more hatred I feel. [8:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=497) I have a hole in my stomach and it isn't, it isn't filling up, you know. [8:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=501) I can't imagine it, that's all. [8:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=507) I feel like they're going to come back. We can't bring ourselves to imagine that they're underground and then— and then we go to the cemetery every day, we, we talk to them, we talk to them all day, but they're not here anymore, there's no answer, you know. [8:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=524) There's no— there's no more voice, there's... [8:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=528) No more messages from them. [8:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=534) Éric and Sylvie received hundreds of letters of support from all over the world. [8:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=539) They carefully read every single one. At least it's recording me. [9:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zHO9qB9xYBDT/en/november-13-paris-attacks-parents-mourn-daughters-anna-and-marion?t=545) For now, they refuse any psychological support.