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They’re both named Juliette. One is American, the other French. Each lost her father to a terror attack — the first in 9/11 in New York, the other in Paris, ten years ago. Out of shared grief, a rare friendship was born between the two Juliettes across the Atlantic.
Abderrahmane Ouatiki, an Algerian student working at the hotel front desk, was taken hostage and forced to lead the robbers to their priceless loot. As the trial for the 2016 robbery unfolds in the French capital, Le Figaro revisits how everything fell apart for the PhD candidate, who lost his passion for studying and was forced to return to his home country.