In Gemayzeh, one of the districts most affected by the twin explosion that has devastated the half of Beirut, the apartment of the family Héchaimé, on the top floor of an old building from the 1940s, has been literally blown. "There is nothing left ; I have the broken heart ", confesses Alexandre Héchaimé, a young lawyer. Still in shock, he and his family have recovered a few trinkets in the dust of the ruins : a photo of the great-uncle of a bodybuilder posing in a swimsuit in Kaslik, the swimming club of the gentry local, an old Persian carpet, an antique quran, some of the paintings... The...
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