{"id":132,"date":"2015-11-17T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/closeup\/?p=132"},"modified":"2015-11-24T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:26:33","slug":"scott-bedard-and-the-paris-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/closeup\/2015\/11\/17\/scott-bedard-and-the-paris-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Security and solidarit\u00e9 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian Scott Bedard should have been in the 10th\u00a0<\/sup>arrondissement of Paris on Friday night when the city was attacked and 129 people died. The 28-year-old should have been right next to Caf\u00e9 Bonne Bi\u00e8re, where five people were killed. But he got a call from a friend that may have saved his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen Paris like that in my life, and I hope never to again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bedard is a Torontonian and former resident of Ottawa now studying and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. He intended to have dinner at the restaurant Death by Burrito, owned by a friend. He changed plans after a friend suggested going to the theatre in the 13th\u00a0<\/sup>arrondissement instead.<\/p>\n

After the play, he and his friend took the Metro up to Les Halles where he was staying. When he emerged, he checked his cellphone and saw messages asking if he was OK.<\/p>\n

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