Heart-stopping video of concertgoers fleeing the terrorist attack at the Bataclan theater in Paris Friday captures the chaos as the massacre unfolds.
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Dozens of terrified people run for their lives, their screams intermittently drowned out by the sound of rapid gunfire in dramatic video footage captured by a journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde.
The video was shot by Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny who took it from the window of his apartment across the street from the Bataclan.
Mr Psenny was later shot in the arm as he attempted to help people shelter in his apartment, and is being treated at the Georges-Pompidou hospital, reported the Guardian.
He said he was watching TV when he heard loud bangs which he assumed were firecrackers. I think it was sacked from a window in the Bataclan.
“A woman was clinging to the window on the second floor of Bataclan”.
He said he was helping an American man who had been shot in the leg when he believes he was shot in the arm. “I heard a noise like firecrackers, and at the beginning I was convinced that it was in the movie”.
According to CNN, at least 100 people were killed inside the theater, where multiple gunmen opened fire, through grenades into the crowd and then took hostages, killing victims one by one until police officers stormed the building. “We thought he would die”.
The attack at the Bataclan concert hall was one of six that rocked Paris last night, and the bloodiest. So I called a doctor friend, and he taught me how to make a tourniquet with my shirt.
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In harrowing scenes, members of the public can also be seen dragging away the bodies of the dead or injured. We put a table over our heads to protect us.
