Footage captured by a Le Monde journalist appears to show individuals fleeing the Bataclan concert venue in Paris, where at least 89 people were killed by terrorists on Friday night. The shooting stopped, and Jon lifted his head up to see the gunman move from one side of the hall to the other before unleashing another volley of gunfire. Three people cling to upper-floor balcony railings in an attempt to hide from the assailants inside.
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The video was shot by Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny, who lives in an apartment behind the venue and was watching a movie when the shooting began.
Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at six locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 140 people in what a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.
Psenny was taken to the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in the 15th arrondissement at around 3am and was waiting for surgery on Saturday morning. I [yelled out my window] and said I would go down to open [the door] so [the victims] could come take refuge.
And fellow survivor Marielle Timm added: “I will never forget the vision of horror”. He said the bullet was sacked from a window. “All of a sudden we heard huge gunshots and glass coming through the windows”. I understood that it was serious. The woman is left clinging by one hand from the ledge as a badly wounded person lies groaning beneath her.
He said: ‘She was asking for help, she was saying “aidez-moi, aidez-moi”, so help me, help me’.
“And then, I turned around and I saw a guy with an assault rifle sniping at the crowd”, he said.
One man emerges from the building, evidently wounded as he limps away from the scene. “With another man, I pulled him into the lobby”. But I remember having felt [something] like a firecracker exploding on my left arm, and I saw that it was [bleeding profusely].
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Mr Psenny described how he then made his way to a neighbour’s flat on the fourth floor – only to find that fire-fighters were unable to evacuate people at that stage. Immediate suspicion for the events in Paris falls to so-called returnees – people who have traveled to Syria and Iraq and have returned, the officials said.
