Man Who Was Inside Paris Concert Hall During Attack Offers Horrifying Account

“At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood”.

Yes – reprehensible, cowardly and terrifying, because we’ve so long assumed that we were safe when we entered our musical bubble.

“They came in through the front door and just began shooting at the crowd, shooting at everyone like insane”. At least 100 hostages were escorted from the concert hall.

“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.’ They also spoke about Iraq”. There were three of them.

“There were people lying on the floor”. There was blood everywhere.

“I saw a guy probably 6ft 4ins to 6ft 5ins, quite a heavy-set man, looked Caucasian from about 50 yards away”, he told the BBC.

“They are hiding in a few kind of room in the dark and they text me, and they are very afraid, of course, and they are waiting for the police to intervene, but it’s been over two hours now and this is bad”.

He says he was located near the top of the stage during the incident. The exits were clearly marked and I just ran. One witness, Margot Schmorak, told ABC News via Skype that one of the attacks “was around the corner from us, about a half a block down”.

“We are in shock”.

A woman being evacuated after the shooting at the Bataclan concert hall.

“She was bleeding very badly”, he told CNN.

PARIS-A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in… “They were wearing black clothes”. So people tried to escape…and I found an exit when the terrorists reloaded their guns.

Pearce said he found an injured girl and helped her get to safety.

France has been on edge since deadly attacks by Islamic extremists in January on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery that left 20 dead, including the three attackers.

He said his team is was still gathering information and he didn’t want to speculate about who might be responsible.

“People yelled, screamed”, he said.