The German Football Association (DFB) has announced that the team has returned to Frankfurt after spending the night inside the Stade de France following the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday.
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French president Francois Hollande, who was in attendance at the game, was hurried from the stadium amid the early reports of shootings in central Paris and of the developing hostage crisis in the Bataclan theatre. We didn’t know what was going on and what would happen next.
“Once the explosions went off we were locked inside”.
Following the attacks, US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led a global chorus of solidarity with France. “I don’t think there were injuries, but it was a panic surge”.
The Stade de France was packed with 79,000 fans when three attackers blew themselves up outside the venue, killing a bystander.
Tulga still has his tickets to Friday’s game.
“The blasts occurred during the first half of the game, sowing confusion throughout the stadium”, the Wall Street Journal said.
The third attacker, for reasons which remain unclear, waited another 23 minutes to trigger his vest which only killed him as he had stepped away from the stadium and was next to a tree and a traffic sign in a side-road wedged between office buildings.
He said: “I thought it was just kids or something”.
Another man, who has not been named, has been identified as one of the three Stade de France bombers and was born on January 22, 1995.
Fans later started descending on the pitch as they waited to get out of the stadium.
“The RER B (one of the main suburban train lines serving the station) isn’t working…It’s a black Friday, the 13th”, said 27-year-old Sarah Gopal, carrying a French flag in her hand. I feel lucky to be alive.
In Paris’ 11th district near to Place de la Republique, five people are killed on the terrace of a pizzeria, La Casa Nostra.
Mr Cowan works as an English assistant for the British Council in Limoges.
Recent figures show 128 dead with another 99 in critical condition, after terror acts in France.
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The apparently coordinated gun and bomb assault came as the country, a founder member of the US-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference due to open later this month.
