There, Where One Has Lived (2016) begins with cellphone footage of the 7 January 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, France, during which 12 people lost their lives. Cellphone footage recording the 9 January 2015 Hyper Cacher terrorist attack in Paris, France, during which 4 people lost their lives, is later included in the film. These cellphone images were recorded by persons who witnessed and survived these respective terrorist attacks. Countering these images of extremist, violent attacks upon daily human life spontaneously recorded by cellphone, the film memorializes the 17 victims who lost their lives during the Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge, and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks through the inclusion of re-edited images from the now classic Maison Carnot (Mathieu Maury, Antoine Pai) commercial/short film, "Paris by Pentax" (2014; re-released as "Paris Through Pentax" (2015)), recording beautiful images celebrating love, light and life in Paris as seen through the viewfinder of the "legendary" Pentax 67 camera. "There, where a person has lived, their spirit continues to dwell."
As a resident of La Maison Française while a student at the University of Virginia, Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham (née Yvonne Michele Anderson) published «La Bavarde», a French language, periodic satirical "mini-newspaper and rag mag". Although «La Bavarde» treated much lighter themes than Charlie Hebdo for community enjoyment, and Ms. Anderson-Avraham's personal stance on the treatment of religious figures within satirical media, or media, generally, is different than the position taken by Charlie Hebdo, she nevertheless defends the rights of Freedom of Expression and Free Speech, as restricted by the boundaries of "Hate Speech" or "Offensive Speech". In 2007, the Grande Mosquée de Paris sued the then Editor-in-Chief of Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val, under French Hate Speech Law on the grounds of religious discrimination. This is the only time that a Muslim affiliated individual or organization has ever sued Charlie Hebdo to date (2017), though this same magazine has been sued by Christian affiliated individuals and groups on the same or similar grounds numerous times. Had the young men who committed the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, all French nationals, been encouraged to take a similar route in response to this issue of great concern to them as Muslims, perhaps they would have escaped indoctrination to terrorist ideology, and 20 people would be alive today. Ms. Anderson-Avraham believes that Courts, both secular and religious, are essential to the resolution of the growing social and cultural conflict between Near and Middle East and West deeply affecting not only European society, but also the entire world, today.
While living in Paris in the mid-2000's, Ms. Anderson-Avraham (then Ms. Anderson) shopped frequently at several Hyper Cacher stores in the 19th arrondissement (Canal de l'Ourcq and La Villette), as did many Jewish residents of northeastern Paris, generally.