“We slept in the car, in a parking lot. Finally, I have not closed my eyes. »Gérard is tired. Residing in Klang, near Thionville, he went a few days ago to his ex-partner Nataša in Zagreb, Croatia. The purpose of his visit: to see his 13-year-old son Leon again and spend the end of the year holidays with him. “There, I have not slept since Tuesday morning, I’m slammed,” he sighs the day after the magnitude 6.4 earthquake on the Richter scale that hit the country. The epicenter of the earthquake, located about fifty kilometers from the capital, near the town of Petrinja, in the Sisak region, caused several victims and extensive material damage.
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First tremors on Monday
They felt the first tremors on the early morning of the 28th. “I came here to spend some time with my son. It’s been almost a year since we last saw each other with the pandemic, so it was an opportunity to meet again and celebrate his birthday. It was also on that day, around 6:28 a.m., that we felt a first tremor of 5.2. In Nataša’s apartment, objects fall to the floor. “We still blew out the candles, in a small committee. Finally, it was yesterday, the 29th at 12:19 pm, that it really shook. There again, the furniture is shaking, the building too. “A shoe cabinet fell apart, the chairs were dancing, everything fell to the floor. At that point, everyone came out. There was some damage in Zagreb apparently, power cuts in some areas for a few hours. “
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The night spent in a car
Finding refuge in a car in a parking lot a few hundred meters away, Gérard, Nataša and their son wait. “In the evening, we still returned to feed ourselves. But around 9 p.m., we returned to the car where we spent the night. Other people have done the same. We said to ourselves that if it had to shake harder during the night, we would be screwed. “And for good reason, the Croatian capital was hit by an earthquake last March, in full confinement.
At daybreak on Wednesday, the earth shook again. ” A little less. This time we were at 4.7. The time to get out of the car and set foot on the ground was over. This afternoon, to change our minds, we went for a walk in the park but tonight, I think we will go home. I’ll try to get some sleep. “
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