Searching for a granddaughter he's never met | Finding Alaa
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2023
- Azdyne Amimour has been searching for his granddaughter since 2015. He’s never met her and he’s not sure where she is, but he refuses to give up. #CBCShortDocs #FindingAlaa
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Azdyne Amimour’s son Samy was one of the terrorists responsible for the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Samy was one of the attackers at the Bataclan Hall; he was killed when police shot at him and his suicide vest exploded.
Samy left behind a daughter, Alaa, born just days after the attacks in France. Amimour has never met her and even after years of searching, he hardly knows anything about her - except that she is in a camp, somewhere in Syria.
In Finding Alaa, Amimour takes the first legal steps to find his granddaughter, while grappling with pain, guilt, grief and shame about his son.
Finding Alaa was co-commissioned by CBC and BBC.
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Saw this at the London screening a few months ago
Met the two main men and the Director Dr. Myriam - very thought provoking - well done to all
Very touching , it’s human tragedy for everyone 😢but it’s so beautiful to see this 2 men become friends , there is hope for peace and humanity ❤
Really insightful and balanced. Well done Myriam!
Greetings from oakville I seldom watch this show only today I watched the documentary I cried profusely and made me realized life is short and precious
My goes out for the family.. heart touching documentry...❤❤❤❤..
Thanks for your brave and smart interview
Rarely you find this sharp wit and beauty in one person
My heart goes out to these families.
Why put the child in foster care when she has family that wants to have her?
I can’t comprehend a system where children are placed into foster care when there are loving family members desperate to take care of the child. Everything about this story breaks my heart. Right down to the emotional manipulation of Samy. There is no place for hatred and division in a new earth.
Deeply touching story
Damn that's hard to watch. Reminds me too much of my dad, he constantly does everything for his kids and grandkids, even though he's had polio since a kid and suffering from post covid-symptoms. It's hard to watch because I know if something like this would happen to my dad, he'd die trying to find them and wouldn't stop at anything.
Omg..❤..
Well done sister. 👍👍🤗👍👍...
C’est tellement triste
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This is a rather sad story. I have maintained for many years now that there is no room for Political Extremists of any stripe. However I do wonder as to just what gets them started as in the underlying causes.
The causes are many, all you'd need to do is to watch the occupation of mulsum lands (Palestine is the core issue, I'd say, then Iraq, etc.
). If you use today's Ukraine occupation by the Russians, as an example, you'd find that many western volunteers felt a moral obligation to go to Ukraine and fight the Russian invaders. If we strip aside the official narratives of the goodies and the baddies, then the misguided youth who went to Syria and Iraq and some of these who came back to harm the west, are not different to the foreign volunteers flocking to help the Ukrainians.
I am in no way excusing the acts of terrorism and barbaric violence that Isis and it's affiliates perpetrated, but the causes are easy to see
Injustice causes someone to kill himself.
Tragic story but France has given you and your son shelter.
How could he then do that.
Its completely unforgivable.
What exactly is your point by saying this? This has nothing to do with the subject of this video. This man is trying to do the right thing and do some make up for the thing his son did. He never ever asked for forgiveness and has always been vocal about what his son did. “France giving him shelter” ain’t got shit to do with it. Would you say that if he was born in France instead of Algeria? His son was born in France. Mr. Amimour is of French nationality. You stupid ass clown.