Updates On 22nd Jan 2015

Je Suis Lila!

As the world learned of the devastating terrorist attacks inflicted on Charlie Hebdo�s office in Paris, little was reported about the affects on one lone canine. On 16 January, France�s Le Monde newspaper released a story of an unreported survivor of the shootings.

It was on that date, that crime reporter Sigol�ne Vinson posted a story about the office mascot, named Lila. This pooch was fortunate enough not to be in the line of fire when the Kouachi brothers killed 12 of her colleagues. The Cocker Spaniel, who wears a Charlie Hebdo collar, had greeted the staff that morning, but when the gunfire began on January 7th, she was wise enough to “run from room to room,” noted Vinson who also survived the shootings.

Racing between the bodies of slain cartoonists who normally offered her treats, Lila, the red-haired house dog, was the silent witness of their executions by automatic weaponry.

One of the gunmen told Vinson he wouldn�t kill her because she was a woman, and she kept still behind an office wall until she heard them flee. �As I lay there, not sure if they were really gone, shots rang out in the distance, in the street. And then I heard Lila with her tiny steps,� Vinson said. She thought Lila was searching for her favourite cartoonist, Jean Cabut, who was killed. When sure the gunmen had left, Vinson called the fire department, and the operator asked how many bodies she could see; “They’re all dead. They’re all dead. They’re all dead,” she replied.

In the January 14th sold-out edition of Charlie Hebdo, Vinson wrote an Ode to Lila. It read in part, �At Charlie Hebdo, we have a dog, a red Cocker Spaniel who signals to us that it’s OK, that we can get up now, that (the terrorists) have gone.”

She adds, with a touch of cruel irony: “Lila was spared, perhaps because she is a female.” No doubt Lila is grieving her lost colleagues no less than Madame Vinson.

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