French bakery owner Jhemima Sheilha says five years of hard work were upended when looters ransacked one of her shops during protests in Paris.
“It has cost me the time I couldn’t spend with my children. But what it’s costing me today? It’s having to ask myself, if I do start again, will it last? How long before it happens again?” she says.
Sheilha immigrated to France from the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo when she was 9. She and her husband built her successful bakery business that now employs dozens of people.
Student activist Lola-Fleur Whittaker, 22, offers a different perspective. She says looting is wrong but argues that the economic system needs to change.
“We live in a society where we walk past people every day that are just sleeping outside. That doesn’t shock anyone. However, a shop being, you know, looted and stuff, that’s really shocking. And I don’t think that’s really fair,” she says.
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