I live in greece, but france is my country and I haven&#x27;t heard back from my sister who lives around there. I know the odds are she&#x27;s fine, but there&#x27;s still the doubt in my mind.<p>It certainly feels different when you feel affected. You want to be reactionary. You want to have a knee-jerk reaction. Maybe I now understand why people are so quick to try to blame the issue on a certain cause.<p>But inside me I&#x27;ve spent my time fighting against this. I <i>know</i> that those attacks are not done &quot;just for fun&quot;, they are driven by what makes them so effective: The fear they instill. The panic. The people who want to start putting the blame on a marginalized group that is prone to violence by their own situation.<p>Part of me wants to elaborate, but another part of me feels too sick to actually write more about this. I just want to go to bed, forget it happened.<p>I would like to ask the HN community to please not be reactionary about it. Please don&#x27;t be xenophobic. Please don&#x27;t marginalize groups.<p>And I have actually only seen one comment talking about car accidents, in a very different light than what you imply... so add to that, please don&#x27;t make shit up.