Vision outside the Bataclan concert venue is taken by photographer Patrick Zachmann, as he hid behind an unmarked police auto. A few of the attackers then detonated suicide vests.
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82 people were tragically killed in the attacks.
Le Monde said its reporter, Daniel Psenny, who filmed the scene from his apartment balcony, was shot in the arm after he stopped filming, when he went downstairs to help someone in the alley, as USA Today writes.
A woman dangled from a window to escape the gunfire in the concert hall. Their faces weren’t covered, I could see they were young. A few of those reportedly survived by hiding in the upper tiers of the venue. An IS statement claimed this attack was the “first of a storm”.
Gunmen opened fire into the 1,500-strong crowd who were watching the sell-out show.
The wife of drummer Julian Dorio said that her husband had called to say that he was safe, according to the Washington Post.
“We are just holding our breath and saying prayers for everyone”, she said. “Everyone on stage was able to get off”.
“I clearly heard them say “It’s the fault of Hollande, it’s the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria”. “Our thoughts are with all of the people involved in this tragic situation”.
The video starts with explosions coming from near the concert hall, where attackers killed at least 89 people and wounded several others.
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The hostage-taking was one of six attacks across the French capital on Friday night in what Mr Hollande has described as “unprecedented terrorist attacks”. If the terrorists had be better trained and had positioned men to guard this flank as they carried out their attack, we’d be looking at a number of dead or injured police officers here.
