The trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 will begin on September 8, 2021. A night of violence and tension, but also of extreme coolness for the Paris Samu, as proven by unpublished recordings unveiled by franceinfo.
On November 13, 2015, Paris and Saint-Denis were the target of coordinated attacks, which hit the Stade de France, the terraces of the Capital as well as the Bataclan. In total, terrorists killed 130 people and injured dozens, leaving the country traumatized. At the forefront that night, the Paris Samu. A few days before the start of trial of the attacks of November 13, franceinfo unveils Recordings received by the platform: thirteen hours of tape where we hear the witnesses and victims call the Samu, and the staff ensure coordination between the ambulance drivers, the Paris firefighters, the doctors, but also, hospitals, with the aim of saving as many people as possible.
It was at 9:26 p.m. that a first call was made: “Hello, I think there has just been a shooting at the bottom of my house, rue Bichat, at the corner of rue Alibert, at Carillon. Hurry, there are people injured!”, begs a resident. At 9:33 p.m., a distraught witness explains over the phone: “I saw a guy with a Kalashnikov get out of a car, and he shot people crazy at McDonald’s 10th.” Very quickly, Nicolas Poirot, reservist and trainer at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital, understood that these were coordinated attacks. He is to take command of the crisis unit from the Paris Samu to the AP-HP. Doctor “demands a dedicated table from its teams, a map to understand the movement of terrorists in Paris”, trace franceinfo.
“It has been for me, so far, the most significant event, professionally speaking”, says Nicolas Poirot. It was his computer that contained these unpublished sound documents, which show the impressive mastery of the personnel involved.
The day before the November 13 attacks, an exercise simulating similar attacks
However, on the other side of the line, victims say they were shot, see their relatives fall, give the position of people who are hiding from the terrorists … Ambulance teams are also present. in areas where shooting continues. Franceinfo has chosen not to broadcast certain appeals, where the victims cry for help, suffer. What we hear, on the other hand, is the calm and determination of the members of Samu 75, who reassure, dispatch and try to organize themselves as best they can with the police services, which is not in their habits.
How to explain this coolness? Through demanding training and total commitment, of course. A coincidence of the calendar also helped: on the morning of Friday, November 13, 2015, the Samu du Paris carried out a simulation exercise of a multiple attack. Questioned by the JDD on Sunday, November 15, professor Pierre Carli, chief medical officer of the Paris Samu, explained: “We have been prepared for a long time to face mass terrorism. (…) It’s hardly believable, but we did a sort of dress rehearsal on Friday morning”.
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This exercise included several stages, according to Pierre Carli. Firstly, “Set up, as soon as the emergency room arrives, resuscitation adapted to gunshot wounds: tourniquets, dressings, appropriate drugs in order to limit bleeding as much as possible”. Then “implement a fluid and rapid organization, all the more complex since there are many sites and many victims. The priority is to transfer the most serious cases to the operating theaters to save them from death by hemorrhage . In the various Parisian hospitals, vascular, thoracic and orthopedic surgeons have been mobilized. “ A plan which certainly made it possible to save lives, during a night which marked the mobilized personnel and the whole country forever.
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