Father's Talk With Son About Paris Terror Attack Goes Viral

NOV 17 2015
A heart-wrenching video of a French father reassuring his young son about the Paris terror massacre has been shared more than 11 million times on Facebook.

In the clip, which aired on Canal+ television show "Le Petit Journal," a reporter asks the boy if he understands why extremists killed people in Paris on Friday.

The father, later identified as Angel Le, tries to explain the floral tributes outside the Bataclan theatre, where the majority of the victims of Friday's attacks were killed.

"What about the baddies, Dad?" asks his son, Brandon. "They've got guns."

"They've got guns but we have flowers," Le replies.

In a comment posted on the Facebook clip, Le wrote: "I'm the dad with the little boy, thank you all for the great comments that you have posting for us. When I see all this support it tells me one thing: I'm proud to be French and proud of my fellow countrymen!"

Here is the interview in full:

Journalist: Do you understand what's happened? Do you understand why these people have done this?

Boy: Yes, because they are very, very, very bad. Bad people aren't very nice. And you have to be very careful because you need to move house.

Father: No, don't worry, we don't have to move. France is our home.

Boy: But what about the baddies, Dad?

Father: There are baddies everywhere. There are bad guys everywhere.

Boy: They've got guns. They can shoot us because they're very, very bad, Daddy.

Father: They've got guns but we have flowers.

Boy: But flowers don't do anything. They're for... they're for... they're for...

Father: Look, everyone is laying flowers here.

Boy: Yes.

Father: It's to fight against the guns.

Boy: Is it for protection?

Father: That's right.

Boy: And the candles too?

Father: They're so we don't forget the people who have gone.

Boy: Oh. The flowers and candles are there to protect us?

Father: Yes.

Journalist: Do you feel better now?

Boy: Yes, I feel better.

source: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/fathers-talk-son-about-paris-terror-attack-goes-viral-n464981

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Unknown2016年1月6日清晨6:28
This dialogue is very touching and heart-broken. There are still many people with warming heart. We shouldn't bow our head to those terrorists and I believe if we insist our mind , the bad men will lose.
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Unknown2016年1月6日清晨7:11
Though Parisian have gone through such a horrible thing, they still kept on going and thought very positively. I consider it to be very difficult to fight terrorists with love instead of hate, so I really respect to them. I hope they have recovered from this incident and stood up to go on.
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Unknown2016年1月6日清晨7:44
This conversation is very heart-breaking and thought-provoking, and the father really taught a good lesson to his child. He told his child,"They've got guns but we have flowers." So that his child won't grow up with hatred in mind.
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