Hervé Gourdel: why his death is so traumatic to the French
Hervé Gourdel, the victim of terrorists' last execution ( Photo credit: Hervé Gourdel and Google + ) The corners of the white and blue tablecloth are flying up in the house's front yard as the warm wind of a summer day awakens the tanned faces of a French family in Nice. Melon slices are disposed on the thick olive-green plate and Jamon Iberico is accompanying it. This is the kind of scene any person who’s ever gone to the south of France can see. This is the kind of scene Hervé Gourdel, a French alpinist guide living in Nice, was likely to experience any day, if he was having lunch at a friend’s place that day. To French people, the execution of Gourdel is particularly traumatizing. Not only is the execution of any man by ISIS or ISIS-related groups dreadful but the assassination of Gourdel, a man who is exactly the way every French person thinks of herself or of her neighbor, jolts the French to their very core. The man, who was executed on Wednesday by