Back in the city, in its recent marriage had nearly taken a tragic end: Julia and Thomas Schmitz from Cologne are again this week in Paris, for the first time since November 13, 2015 when their life shrank for a moment of survival and to implode threatened because they were in the middle get into the bloody madness of Islamist rage at the concert Hall Bataclan. But they are still alive, now more than ever, they say, and this feeling to share it with the other survivors, and even a piece to show much of the world, they have come back to Paris, to celebrate the “Eagles of Death Metal” , the band that was on the evening of the attack on the stage. Her first appearance in Paris after the terrorist attack.
It is the Tuesday night this week, the Bataclan is still closed, and the area around the alternative venue Olympia spaciously protected. A large press contingent, police everywhere, security guards. Never have so many people interested in the music of the American garage rock band, but now the group is about the frontman Jesse Hughes in the focus of world public opinion. “That’s pretty wicked here,” says Julia, who just lets go through the fourth security check, this time is obviously in Paris nothing is left to chance.
The shock runs deep: Julia and Thomas Schmitz two days after the attack on the Bataclan in Berlin in November 2015, Günther Jauch.
The band has invited the Bataclan to celebrate life and to remember the dead, the two and all other survivors of the tragedy. Hughes wants the broken Concert from Bataclan “to end play” as he recently said in an interview. How many have answered the call, can be difficult to estimate, it will not be all, “I understand what people feel, who can not come,” said Hughes. “But I know in my heart to do the right thing means doing the hardest thing.” Overall, the hall holds probably around 2500 to 3000 people
For the two Cologne Tuesday is a recurrence with. uncertain outcome. After the assassination in November they talked a lot with friends and relatives, were on television in “Günther Jauch” and “Star TV” to share their experiences and gain a little relief, and after the hustle and bustle they flew to Australia, a long planned trip that was even more important now to break. Completed and processed, however, the experiences were never.
In the afternoon they go to the Bataclan. “That’s amazing okay,” says Julia. The place itself arouses only limited memories. But then the two go into the street and see the window behind which they had in a small stuffy room for hours in fear of their lives, as the assassins shot through the concert hall. “You can see the bullet holes,” says Julia. “Terrible.” The memories come back up to 13 November 2015:
“We really had a perfect day,” says Julia. In Paris, the sun was shining, the two climbed the Eiffel Tower, ate at a restaurant, then visited the catacombs. It was Thomas’ birthday, the trip to Paris a gift, nothing should tarnish this day. In the evening they went to the Bataclan, a time-honored, especially atmospheric concert venue in the XI. Arrondissement that as a theater, in the meantime as a cinema and today as a rock and Poplocation has a name. The band plays in the evening, both like their appearances and their pure rock’n’roll.
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