January 12, 2010, 4: 53 PM, local hour: a magnitude 7, 3 earthquake is hitting Haiti, killing 230 000 people and causing hundreds of thousands of wounded and mutilated.
“I got there a week after the earthquake, only to find a tragic situation in Port-au-Prince. People were shocked. Corpses were lying along roads. As it always seems to happen, the poorer bracket was the most affected. There were still many aftershocks. People were sleeping in parks, in the streets, frightened and traumatized. I was sleeping in the courtyard of a house.”