Sting reopens Paris Bataclan amid tears, cheers & controversy

November 13, 2016 10:28

Rock star Sting reopened the Bataclan, the Paris concert hall where jihadists massacred 90 people, at a symbolic and emotional show to mark the first anniversary of France's bloodiest terror attack.

In a sensational turn of events, the concert hall's co-director said he had prevented two members of the US group Eagles of Death Metal, who were on stage when the bloodshed started on November 13, 2015, from entering.

"They came, I threw them out -- there are things you can't forgive," Bataclan co-director Jules Frutos told AFP, furious at Eagles frontman Jesse Hughes for his claims that some of the venue's Muslim security men were complicit in the attack.

"He makes these incredibly false declarations every two months. It is madness, accusing our security of being complicit with the terrorists... Enough. Zero. This has to stop," Frutos added.

Hughes, a rare right-wing rocker and supporter of US president-elect Donald Trump, has also said without evidence that Muslims were celebrating outside during the venue during the siege. However the band's manager Marc Pollack denied members of the group had tried to enter the Bataclan.

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