“I had the dream of traveling the world with a food truck,” says friend of Brazilian woman killed during attack in France | Bay

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“She was playful. She smiled at everything, and even nothing. She always had fun in her conversations. She wouldn’t stop laughing, even when it was difficult. She had a lot of fun and had a dream of traveling the world with a food truck.” Ivana

Born in Lobato, in Cidade Baixa, in the suburb of Salvador, Simone Barreto was French and trained as a cook, and currently works as a caregiver for the elderly. She has lived in Europe since 1995, when she left Brazil to join a dance group led by her sister.

During the attack, Simone was injured by knife blows and died in a restaurant almost opposite the cathedral, where she tried to take refuge. One of the owners of the l’Unik restaurant, Brahim Jelloule, told TV France Info that she arrived at the place completely bloodied.

Jelloule’s brother and the secretary even entered the church, but saw the man armed with a knife, were threatened by the terrorist, and fled. They called the police. According to Jelloule, Simone died an hour and a half after being injured. The attack took place at 9 a.m. in France (6 a.m. in Brasilia).

Ivana said that during the day she tried to call Simone, but couldn’t. Since Simone often did not respond during work hours, she thought it was normal. The news that the woman had been one of the victims of the attack did not reach family and friends until the early hours of the night, hours after the crime.

Ivana didn’t know if her friend used to go to the church where the attack happened. However, he suspects that he went to take one of the elderly people he cared for.

“I don’t know. I am not aware of this habit. I know she is quite religious. But I don’t know if she had the habit of going to that church. The woman.

He even told the G1 that Simone had her birthday recently, on October 10. The Bahian woman has three children. There is no information about the burial.

According to members of the women’s wing at Madeleine Washing Resistance, a Brazilian cultural event that takes place in Paris for 19 years, Simone and the sisters participated in the wing in 2019, but weren’t there this year due to Covid-19.

In addition, Simone was a cultural agitator in Nice and organized the Yemanja Festival in the city with her sisters and cousins.

Itamaraty issued an official note in which it repudiates the attack and regrets the death of the Brazilian. The text says that “President Jair Bolsonaro, on behalf of the entire Brazilian nation, offers his deepest condolences to the family and friends of the citizen murdered in Nice, as well as to those of the other victims, and extends his solidarity to the people and to the French Government “.

Itamaraty also reported that, through the Consulate General in Paris, “it provides consular assistance to the family of the Brazilian citizen victim of the terrorist attack.”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, expressed himself in his profile on a social network. “I deeply regret the death of a 44-year-old Brazilian mother of three children, which occurred today in Nice, France, one of the three fatal victims of the brutal attack by a terrorist in the Basilica of Our Lady,” he wrote.

The governor of Bahia used social media to sympathize with Simone’s death. “Sad and indignant. May God comfort Simone’s family and friends and the other victims of this barbarous crime. Solidarity with France and the world that defends love and peace,” he said.

Salvador Mayor ACM Neto also spoke about the woman’s death. In the official profile, he said that “remains our immense discouragement at this barbaric crime, condemned by all world leaders, with whom we will now unite, in the certainty that common sense, reason and lucidity will dominate irrationality, fanaticism and religious intolerance. ”

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