ANNE-MARIE (FOREGROUND) POSES WITH HER HUSBAND JEAN-CLAUDE (LEFT), HER SISTER AND BROTHER IN FRONT OF THE FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SIGIRÎYA, SAYS THE LION ROCK.
Two Sarthois couples are currently traveling to Sri Lanka. Anne-Marie evokes the climate of state of emergency in which the country has been plunged since the deadly attacks on Sunday.
By setting foot on Sri Lankan soil on April 13, they did not expect to find themselves at the heart of international news.
Ten days after disembarking in Colombo, they are preparing to return to a capital covered with blood by a wave of terrorist attacks which, according to the latest reports, have left nearly 300 dead and at least 500 injured.
“The airport was closed on Sunday but normally, our return flight is maintained tomorrow evening (this Tuesday, Editor’s note) “ , announced this Monday Anne-Marie, traveling on the island of the Indian Ocean with her husband Jean- Claude, his sister and his brother-in-law.
The two retired couples live in Sarthe: in Yvré-l’Évêque and Sillé-le-Philippe.
It was a hundred kilometers from the scenes of crimes perpetrated in the capital, that they learned the terrible news on this Easter Sunday.
“We had a visit planned to Galle, in the southwest of the island. The excursion was cut short and we were brought back to the hotel to respect the curfew decreed throughout the country (from 6 pm to 6 am), ” says the young retiree from Sarth (64 years old).
Find Anne-Marie’s testimony in “Le Maine Libre” this Tuesday April 23
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