The Daily BuzzDonations make trip home possible for sister of Paris attack victim
A French woman who was travelling through New Zealand at the time of the Paris attacks last week will be able to join her family in the French capital.
After hearing of the attacks, Jenny Boissinot, 23, posted an urgent message on her Facebook asking for any information about her family.
The statement, translated from French reads:
Emergency. My Brother-in-law was injured and is in the hospital. In a panic he lost my sister. We have no news of Chloe (Chloë Boissinot). She was at the restaurant “the little Cambodia” in the 10th, next to the Bataclan. Please, if you have any information, call my family, the police…I beg you.
Boissinot then learned her older sister, Chloe, had been one of the 129 people killed in the attacks, reported the New Zealand Herald.
Chloe, 25, was with her partner when the gunmen entered the restaurant and opened fire on the diners.
Friends and family in Europe and New Zealand quickly gathered resources together to help Jenny arrange a trip home. They set up a crowdfunding page for people to donate funds to buy a plane ticket home for Boissinot and her partner who was with her in New Zealand.
The campaign, dubbed ‘Solidarity with Jenny and Cyril,’ has raised the $4,255 CAD.
“She’s very distraught, as you can imagine,” friend Patrick Clairet told the Herald. “The main people she wants to see now are her family who are in France."
Jenny had been in the country for about two months reports the Daily Mail. She reportedly flew out of Aukland Airport on Monday night.
The community of Chateau-Larcher in Western France, held a memorial service for the Boissinot family and Chloe on Monday.
According to French publication France Bleu, 150 people gathered together outside City Hall for a moment of silence and solidarity.
Mayor Francis Gargouil spoke to the mourners. His statement, translated from French read:
“Thank you all for coming. I had Bernard, the father of Chloe Boissinot the phone this morning. He thanks you all for this gathering. You will understand that the family is not present, it has other things to do. But thank you for being there.”
