France, Nov. 14 -- "What worries me is all the dissension that we feel in our society,"he told RFI. "I think that's been something the attacks have contributed to ... more violence and more tension in our society."

Lesaffre had finished his shift as a physician at the Menilmontant fire station in northern Paris on 13 November 2015.

Walking past Le Petit Cambodge in the 10th arrondissement on his way to his dinner date, he paused to watch a fire brigade crew from the Parmentier station helping an elderly woman near the restaurant.

"I had been working with a team from that fire station that day and I wanted to give them some information on a patient that we had treated together, but it was not the same team so I continued,"Lesaffre recal...