Aristide comes face to face with the attacker in New York: “It is hard. That man has changed your life for the rest of your days.”

His wife lost her legs, he had a skull fracture of no less than 14 centimeters, their youngest son was also injured. And now, in court in New York, Aristide Melissas has come face to face for the first time with the IS terrorist who, on that beautiful autumn day in 2017, abruptly ended his family’s bicycle trip along the Hudson River in Manhattan. And to their life as it was before. “It’s not easy”, Aristide testifies to ‘VTM Nieuws’.