Paris eatery owner's friend recalls attack scene

Mourners gather in silence to lay white flowers outside a restaurant on Paris’s trendy rue de Charonne where attackers linked to the Islamic State group went on a rampage, killing 19 people and critically wounding nine others.

A friend of restaurant owner Gregory Reibenberg says he rushed to the scene shortly after the attack Friday evening. “The first thing I saw was my best friend Gregory picking up his dead wife, trying to run for help,” says Youssef Boudjema, who’d returned to the Belle Epoque restaurant Sunday.

Hundreds of mourners have been coming here over the past day and a half, leaving flowers and candles in honor of the victims.

— AP