For almost four years, the city of Raqqa was the capital of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” of the Islamic State organization. Its inhabitants, trapped, experienced atrocities that no one imagines. Coming out of the terrorist hell in 2017, they remain marked by the same pain: that of never having been able to tell the terror, believing it inaudible. Journalists Céline Martelet and Hussam Hammoud recorded these moving words in Asphyxiation: Raqqa, chronicle of an apocalypsepublished by Éditions Denoël.
