“It was hallucinatory.” Max Van Mechelen (22) still sounds affected when we speak to him. The Antwerp student, who lives in Lyon for his studies, was sitting on a terrace with his parents when masked men stormed into the street with iron bars. “First they smashed the windows, then you saw the clothes and the fireworks flying in all directions.” With us Max tells his story of a night full of chaos.
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Flemish student Max (22) testifies about the riots in Lyon: “I saw how a father and his child looted ten piles of clothes”
