A French survivor of the rampage at Paris’ Bataclan concert hall
says he was struck by how young the attackers were.
Julien Pearce, journalist at Europe 1 radio, was at the Bataclan
concert hall on Friday to attend the concert by the American rock
band Eagles of Death Metal. He said when the three attackers
stormed in “it took me few seconds to realize it was gunshots.”
Pearce and his friends immediately got down on the ground to avoid
the random shots, then ran and crawled into a tiny dark room next
to the stage. He says “there was no exit, so we were just in another
trap, less exposed, but still a trap.”
Pearce said could discreetly look out and see one of the
assailants. He says “he seemed very young. That’s what struck
me, his childish face, very determined, cold, calm, frightening.”
Once the attackers reloaded, his group rang across the stage to the
emergency exit, helping a wounded woman out. Looking back, he
saw “dozens and dozens of entangled, bullet-riddled bodies in a
pool of blood.”
89 people were killed at the hall.
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