'I saw my final hour unfurl', eye-witness recalls

November 14, 2015 08:32

Julian Peace, a journalist for Europe 1, was inside the Bataclan in the 10th arrondissement, a popular and renowned concert venue, when the attack happened, reports the Guardian newspaper.

'He told France Inter that two to three people -- not wearing face masks -- opened fire on the crowd with automatic weapons, possibly, kalashnikovs. He said the shootings lasted 10 to 15 minutes -- long enough for the assailants to re-load their weapons two or three times,' the newspaper writes, listing out eye-witness accounts of Paris's nightmare.

It was carnage,' Marc Coupris, 57, told the Guardian, 'still shaking after being freed from being held hostage at the Bataclan, a popular concert venue.'

"I saw my final hour unfurl before me, I thought this was the end. I thought I'm finished, I'm finished. I was terrified. We must all have thought the same. Eventually, when a few gendarmes came in slowly we began to look up and there was blood absolutely everywhere. The police told us to run,' the newspaper reports.

Another witness, Jrome Boucer, 'shivering in the cold night wearing a white shirt splattered with the blood of the victims and wounded,' told the Guardian: "The concert had started. I was in the audience and I heard what sounded like a firecracker. It was loud but the gig was very loud and

'I thought it was something that was part of the show. I think lots of people did too. Then they started firing. I saw what I thought was at least two people, then I fled. The exits were clearly marked and I just ran. There were wounded, there was a lot of blood. Blood everywhere.'

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