for several hours, the young man was at the mercy of assassins in the Paris concert hall “Bataclan”. In desperation he must have feared for his life. Shortly after midnight, then, after the police had the building stormed, he was finally able via Instagram a sign of all-clear to send to his friends: “I am escaped death,” he texted
“# JeSuisParis. Alive. And stronger than ever.” On the Selfie next to the post office, where the dark-haired man holding his ticket for the concert of “Eagles of Death Metal” in the camera, these acts clearly posted.
The day after the attacks in Paris, killing nearly 130 people and 250 people were injured, there are those messages that give the world an idea of martyrdom through which the victims and the survivors are gone. And the relatives, who feared for the lives of their loved ones -. And in the end probably got the worst of all messages
“One of the best people”
Just as Roisin M., who wrote on Facebook:”. I just woke up and had received the heartbreaking news that my friend Nick has become A. victim of Parisian tragedy in Bataclan He was a the best people I’ve known and I still can not believe it. “
Unlike the young woman have many others in the hours after the Tragedy still hope and look under the hashtag #rechercheParis social network for missing family members, friends and colleagues. A father looking for his daughter, a sister her brother, a 13-year-old boy was also on Saturday afternoon still missing.
Meanwhile login more and more eyewitnesses to speak, who observed the dramatic events partly close. How about a Frenchman named Julien, who was in the immediate vicinity of the restaurant “La petit Cambodge”, where there was another gunfight. He told the French newspaper “Le Figaro” that there had been 20-30 shots.
Another woman named Florence told that she was on her Scooters “about a minute later,” arrived: “It was totally unreal, all the people lying on the ground No one moved in the restaurant and in the bar Carillon lay all the people on the floor, it was very quiet, the people did not understand.. what had happened. A young woman was taken by a man in his arms. She looked as if she were dead. ” A weeping young man reported that his sister was killed.
He hid among corpses
The 28-year-old Dexter Sillem from Rotterdam was one of the 1,500 people the “Eagles of Death Metal” concert in the “Bataclan” -Konzerthalle. He had suddenly heard a loud bang, he reported a few hours later the Dutch newspaper “AD”. “Then I saw the men. Three, four, dressed in black.” Sillem had to watch how people fell to the ground. To save himself, could he do anything else than to hide among the corpses. Until it finally fell silent.
“When I eventually heard nothing more, I ran away.” Smeared with the blood of other people, he sought refuge in a makeshift infirmary. Together with three friends he had gone to Paris, but in the face of chaos, it took hours before he could reach them by phone. About the assassin he says: “…. They knew how to handle weapons At first I thought it was a robbery, but they just shot further Keep on”
“Everything went very fast “
The Frenchman Antoine, however, who lives in the street just behind the Bataclan, witnessed how his courtyard on Friday night small in a Emergency camp transformed: Within minutes, dozens of victims were transported to the inside of the court until he was full of injured. “You saw how the bodies were wrapped in sheets and were then deposited on the ground,” he told the newspaper “Le Figaro”.
“All happened very quickly, the Court has been evacuated then just as quickly, “he says. In the courtyard itself was nothing more to see of the night events on Saturday morning, but the entire district is still cordoned off. “I was escorted by a police officer to the door of my house. Otherwise I would acceded impossible”, says one of his roommate, Julien. It is to look at him, how much he is still under the shock of the events.
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