PETERSFIELD barman Franck Peidmuller’s first thoughts were with his mother and sister when he heard about the horrors unfolding in Paris.

They both live in suburbs of the capital and he phoned them on Saturday morning to make sure they were safe after finding out about the terrorist attacks.

“It was horrible, I couldn’t believe it could have happened,” said Franck (48), a barman at The Red Lion, who has lived in this country for seven years. His sister Dominique was on a trip to Japan, worried about her adult children living in Paris.

They were all fine, but Franck’s thoughts have been conflicted since the atrocities. “My thoughts are with everyone in Paris, but I feel lucky to be living here,” he said, “I think more attacks could happen. We just don’t know.”

Franck, whose wife Anne-Lise, a teacher who is half English, lived in Petersfield for three years, before they moved to Clanfield four years ago.

The union flag was flown at half-mast until sundown on Monday over the offices of East Hampshire District Council at Penns Place, Petersfield. The minute’s silence was observed there at 11am on Monday. Petersfield Town footballers stood with their opponents at Kings Langley on Saturday to observe a minute’s silence before kick-off of their Southern League fixture.