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By now you’ve seen the touching video between a father and his young son, after the Paris attacks and how a simple explanation spoke volumes toward understanding peace for a child.
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, a video with Vietnamese father Angel Le and his young son Brandon has gone viral. (Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)
In an interview with the French TV show Le Petit Journal, Vietnamese youngster Brandon Le was asked whether he understands why extremists killed people in Paris on Friday. The preschooler responded, “Yes,” saying “bad guys” did it.
The toddler expressed anxiety that his family has to relocate. But his father, Angel Le, reassured his son, saying they do not have to move away from Paris because “France is our home.”
But Brandon appeared bewildered and said that the “really really mean guys” who “have guns” can “shoot us.”
Angel then told his son not to worry because “we have flowers”, pointing to the floral tributes left at the makeshift memorial site outside the Bataclan concert hall, where many people died last Friday. “It’s to fight against guns,” the father said.
The video has gone viral, reaching over 15 million people on the Le Petit Journal Facebook page in two days.
Around Paris, other Vietnamese residents are trying to get back to normal. Tuan Anh, a student who has studied and lived in Paris for seven years, said he was not far away from Place de la Republique when the attacks happened. Anh says he was scared but his motto is ‘La vie continue’ [Life continues.] Otherwise, we lose to terrorists.
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