Professor In Paris Won't Change His Routine Or Stop 'Enjoying The City'
(CBS) -- A professor in Paris who has ties to the University of Chicago says he is puzzled by the choice of targets in at least some of the attacks.
Professor Allan Potofsky has lived in Paris for 20 years. He is a professor at the University of Paris-Diderot, and he frequently collaborates with the University of Chicago's Paris Center.
He and his wife live 15 minutes from one of the attacks.
"That was on a bar called Le Carillon, and the Cambodian restaurant that's just opposite. So, we live very close by and we know these places very well," Potofsky says.
He says the neighborhood is up and coming and not touristy.
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"It's a likely place to attack younger people, probably not wealthy people. It's very mixed, ethnically," he says. "So, that particular area is rather puzzling, for anyone who lives in Paris, as a place to be attacked."
Asked if he would change anything about his routine in the interest of safety, Potofsky replied: "No, there's nothing to do. It's such a haphazard kind of attack. You can't stop going out and enjoying the city."
