When Samy Amimour's older sister last spoke to him in August, it was an everyday conversation.
He told her to send kisses to the family and to his pet cat, whom he had left behind in France. He told her that he had a lot to deal with and that he'd call again soon.
But the next thing Anna Amimour heard of Samy was that he and two other men had stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and shot dead 89 people before he blew himself up with a suicide vest.
"At first, I was shocked. I was screaming in despair and sadness," she said of the moment she heard of her brother's involvement in the November 13 attacks. "But when I gathered my thoughts, I thought, 'This must be wrong; there must be a mistake.' "
There was no mistake.
Samy Amimour, her 28-year-old brother, had been part of a coordinated terror plot that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.