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Impressive spontaneous memorials mark the sites where cowardish terrorist attacks claimed hundreds of lives and thousands of wounded.
Once I got outside the station, I saw many spontaneous contributions to a memorial. Articles from newspapers about victims and their life stories, drawings, flowers and paper puppets for each victim fallen here. Around the corner, under the tracks, was the real memorial site. Here, I found candles, poems, questions, furious remarks, silent witnesses of victims on the wall and on the floor. Some papers had just been stuck to the wall with cellotape, the ink already fading due to the falling rain. Reading them, gave a chilling feeling. Indeed, this could have happened to any one of us.
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