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"The final game"

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A soccer championship
during the summer.

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At the time
it was very simple.

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Two teams, an audience

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At the end everybody
goes back home.

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This is the only
field in Martissant.

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It is for all sporting
and cultural events.

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It is very important
for the population

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it is where people
come to have fun.

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Since I was a kid
more than 20 years ago

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soccer has always
been played here.

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Many generations
played here.

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Sporting events
every year

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The youth usually
gathers here.

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And that day was
like no other.

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It is where DJs,
school kids, students

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vendors gather
to dance

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support the teams

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and get rid of all
frustration and sorrow.

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On Saturday
August 20, 2006

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the field that used to be
a place of happiness

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would leave a scar
in Martissant's memory

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and that of surrounding
neighborhoods.

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That day Sentinel was
playing against the SNK

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of Johnny Descollinnes.

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The game had begun,
everybody was enjoying

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The atmosphere
was good.

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Everybody was happy.

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And the worst
would come

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when the police would
come after gangsters.

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We suddenly heard
a crackling noise.

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People thought
someone had fallen

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from a tree from where
they were watching

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the game.

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People who could
not buy tickets.

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At the end of
the first half

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during the pause
policemen show up.

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They enter the place.

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Everyone applauds.

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Because they think
it is security.

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Actually police did not
come for the game.

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They came for
their own purpose.

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While they were about
to restart the game

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I was standing at
an entrance gate

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and I heard someone
calling for help

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and I saw a hand

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emerging from
the closed gate

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a hand already
tainted in blood.

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He tried to slip
the head in

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and we heard
two shots.

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There were people
with the police.

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They were looking
everywhere inside

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for some people
they said had weapons.

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Young people

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wearing elastic bands

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around the head

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like basketball players.

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White plastic bands
and white t-shirts

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they walked
with the police

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and denounced people

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they said were
wanted by police.

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Panic spreaded, people
running everywhere.

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Police fired. People
tryed to take cover.

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It was a total mess

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much like a
dispersed anthill.

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I ran and there was
this guy running also.

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They found him and
asked him to freeze.

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He said he was
guilty of nothing.

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They said:
"you're not guilty?"

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Before he could answer

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he was wounded
by a machete.

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On the eastern
side of the field

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that's where machine
guns started to fire

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inside the crowd.

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Some people
were wounded

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not by bullets but by
others falling on them

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from rooftops

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while they were
trying to take cover.

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Since then
I'm traumatized.

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At this moment
of the year I feel sad.

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So sad when
I remember.

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There had not been any
such violence in the area

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where a state authority
such as police

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comes with
this level of violence.

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That was the first time.

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That's a trauma
I must live with.

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I never go
there anymore.

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I had never seen
that before.

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First time in my life.

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For the victims,
this event emphasizes

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the meaning of
"peace" in the area

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and they wish Martissant
and its residents

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peace and unity.

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Forget the past,
let's put together

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so that it never
happens again.

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So that we can move on
let's forget the past.

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