Paris: Free first aid courses

More than 3.200 residents of the French capital will take part in the first free course in emergency medical care to better prepare for future terrorist attacks. The two-hour sessions will be held by rescuers in each district of Paris, and their aim is to train participants on how to react in emergency situations. All Parisians over the age of 12 can attend the training. The free courses were approved by the city council in December, a month after the November terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. "We need to know five or six techniques for providing emergency medical aid if there are new terrorist attacks," said emergency medicine physician Patrick Pelu. Pele worked as a columnist, contributor in the French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" and was one of the first people to enter the editorial office of this magazine after the massacre that took place on January 7 last year. In the attack on the newsroom of that newspaper, 10 journalists were killed, including the editor-in-chief, as well as two policemen. Attackers stormed the premises of a French newspaper after the publication of a satirical caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. In the November terrorist attacks around the stadium, several restaurants and cafes and the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, 130 people died.