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DIRECT. Trial of the attacks of November 13: "I saw cartridges fall on my head", describes a survivor of the Bataclan

2021-10-07T03:35:17.585Z


The survivors and relatives of the victims of the Bataclan attack must begin to testify this Wednesday before the special assize court.


The essential

  • Until next May, the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 will be held. 20 men are tried by the specially composed Assize Court.

  • The families of the victims of the Belle Équipe finished testifying on Tuesday.

    And the court subsequently heard from those injured at Comptoir Voltaire, where the suicide bomber, Brahim Abdeslam, brother of the main accused, set off his bomb that evening.

  • This Wednesday, the civil parties linked to the attack which left 90 dead in the Bataclan auditorium will come and testify.

    This stage of the trial is to continue until the end of October.

> Follow the hearing day for civil parties live

2:27 p.m. "I hope to leave this room relieved of my suffering"

. Clarisse, 30, wants to resume "a normal life even though she knows it will never be the same as before". She was 24 years old, she had just finished her studies. "This concert, we were impatiently awaiting it", smiles the young woman. As usual, it takes place in the pit, left side. The small flask of whiskey "passed under the cloak" because the price at the Bataclan bar, "it is a bit expensive for a broke student". With her friend, she decides to leave the room to go get beers "at the local convenience store".

2:19 p.m.

“Did you experience it?

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At the end of the testimony, Cédric addresses the accused box: "Have you seen people die?"

Have you looked them in the eye?

You attacked people, innocent, unarmed, from another culture… ”The opportunity for the president of the Assize Court to recall that the accused benefit from the presumption of innocence, especially as some of the 'between them do not recognize their involvement in the organization of the attacks of November 13.

To read also "We fought against France": at the trial of November 13, Abdeslam assumes, claims, and justifies his war

2:17 p.m.

“For 45 minutes, I looked at the corpses…”.

When he leaves the Bataclan, Cédric looks for his wife, questions the police, goes through the bars around.

“And at one point she came out crying, it was cool, it was the best part of the night.

She was alive.

"

2:15 p.m.

“The BRI arrived, I was afraid of dying for the second time. 

He hesitates to get up.

He is asked to raise his hands, and spots targets on him.

"We had to walk on them, it's not great".

Cédric wants to help a woman with a bloody face but the BRI police officers refuse: "It's normal, they were afraid".

2:07 p.m.

"I see lightning (...) It goes very very quickly and yet the time seemed long"

. Cuff tattooed on the right arm, pepper and salt beard, Cédric seems feverish to the point that the president makes sure he can testify standing. When the terrorists enter, Cédric and his wife find themselves on the ground, at the back of the Bataclan. "I have my whole right leg that was crushed by everyone, a little distorted," he recalls. One of the terrorists, a young man, enjoins them to thank François Hollande for "this little fair". "I had to crawl up to the stairs." Then it's the very long wait. “I saw a person die in his blood (…) for an hour choking in his blood. It's hot anyway. (…) As soon as a phone rang, someone shouted, we were pulled like rabbits.(…) I wondered for two hours whether my wife was alive or not (…) Two hours praying that my phone would not ring. "

1:59 p.m.

"I want to get rid of this anger."

If he came to testify, it is to continue his work of reconstruction.

“It took me realizing that it degraded a lot of things around me, my friendships, feelings, for me to realize that I had to do a job.

But I was not injured at the same time… ”, testifies Jean-Marc, who was able to continue working in teaching despite everything.

13:43.

The vibrator.

While he is lying in the pit, his phone begins to ring.

And vibrate the floor of the auditorium.

"I was trying to adapt my position" so that the vibration was not heard by the shooters, Jean-Marc told the court, with a strangled voice.

13:37.

"I saw cartridges fall on my head"

. Jean-Marc, 40, from Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), appears at the Assize Court. With five friends he came to the Eagles of Death Metal concert. When the performance starts, the group slips into the pit to get closer to the stage. This is where the terrorists start shooting in the crowd. "I saw people around me receiving bullets," recalls Le Havrais. The gusts calm down and Jean-Marc learns that an emergency exit is accessible to the left of the stage. But the shots resumed and he was forced to lie on the ground again. He remembers his long seconds: “I only had the sound, not the image, I covered my face. I saw the foot of an assailant near me, I saw cartridges fall on my head, my hands were soaked in I don't know what ”.

13:34.

“You were seriously injured”.

At the request of the president of the Assize Court, Irmine, 55, confirms that she was indeed injured: "Breast injury, splinters on the wrist, on the forehead".

The mother of the family then speaks of "scars of skin, heart and soul".

13:27.

Irmine's escape.

“I can feel an arm under me,” describes the 50-year-old. She touches him. " No answer ". Then a man screams. "Get out quickly, they're recharging, it's time to get out, go ahead!" ". She is "prostrate", does not react. But the man repeats: "With a firm voice, with meaning, with conviction". She later learns that it is the voice of Didi, the Bataclan vigilante who saved lives that evening. When Irmine stands up, she sees the "unrecognizable" face of her friend Fabian. She tries to "stop the bleeding from her head", to "bring the elements together". "I try to take him by the legs. I can't do it, ”she collapses briefly. “I can't leave him there, it's horrible, I want to stay too. Then she thinks of her children and her husband: "They need me." And so I run and I go out ”.

13:13. From the entrance.

Irmine, blond bob, pearls hanging from the earlobes, comes to the bar to deliver "this testimony which costs me" but which she wishes to give as "a path of gentleness" to those who listen. On the evening of November 13, after the first part of the concert, the forty-something is with her friend Fabian in the entrance of the Bataclan. “At one point I find myself on the ground, face down, in the dark. Maybe the doors open and there is movement. The terrorists entered. Irmine remembers “an almost youthful voice that says“ France has nothing to do in Syria, she has to go and something in Arabic. The man also shouts: "The first to move, I'll kill him!" "Irmine curls up:" We want to go into the ground, we don't know if we are alive or dead, we only want to be touched. "

1:02 p.m.

"I saw four"

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Hands in the pockets of his pants, leather jacket, hoodie, Jean-Charles, is "on the sidewalk of the Bataclan".

He comes to see friends at the Apérock Café.

With a friend, he smokes a cigarette.

"This is where they arrived."

He says he sees only one armed man: "When someone shoots you, you only see one".

Then, he assures her afterwards: “I saw four.

It's not rumors, there were four.

According to the instruction, the terrorist Bataclan commando consisted of only three men.

At the bus stop, he helps people to leave, diverts cars on the boulevard.

It welcomes the police.

Then his friends, locked in the Apéro Rock, reopen the doors to him so that he can take refuge.

13 hours.

Sixteen hearings are scheduled for today.

12:56.

AJ.

We start with regularizations of requests for provisional legal aid, before moving on to the first testimonies of the Bataclan.

12:55.

The hearing is resumed.

12:35.

All our articles.

A few minutes from the resumption of the hearing, find here all the production of the Parisian on the trial of the attacks of November 13.

12:01.

"Our children were murdered, they were confiscated from us

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Relatives of those killed at La Belle Équipe spoke on Tuesday of the memory of their loved ones, the day of the tragedy and the life after.

In a flood of pain, love and questions.

Read our review here.

Read also Trial of the attacks of November 13: suspicions about the sincerity of a repentant accused

Midday.

"Are you the freak who massaged the suicide bomber?"

"

David Murat was at the counter when Voltaire Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up, November 13, 2015. Nurse, he came to rescue the wounded.

Including the terrorist, whom he tried to save.

Read his testimony here.

11:50.

Hello and welcome to this live.

The Assize Court is due to hear the civil parties of the Bataclan on Wednesday.

Source: leparis

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