Images and sound of the attacks on the Bataclan were broadcast Friday at the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks.
Seven months after the start of the historic trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, images and sound of the Bataclan attack were broadcast before the special assize court in Paris, in the presence of around 250 victims and relatives.
The large audience hall is completely filled. On the benches of the civil parties, many had hugged each other before sitting down. Many had not come since last fall, when they had succeeded at the helm for five weeks to tell the horror of that night when 130 people were killed in Paris and Saint-Denis.
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A recording picked up by a dictaphone
The court began by broadcasting three short excerpts from an audio recording of two and a half hours, captured by a dictaphone left on during the attack at the Bataclan.
The room holds its breath when the group Eagles of Death Metal resounds in the room, quickly interrupted by Kalashnikov fire. The shots stop for a moment, only the cries of fear and howls of pain remain. Then the shooting resumes at an accelerated rate, sometimes piecemeal.
In the second excerpt, we hear a terrified hostage screaming at the police: “they have explosive devices, don’t come, otherwise they will blow everything up”.
The president finally broadcasts the soundtrack of the final assault. A confused hubbub, explosions, frightened cries – “we are hostages” – then the orders of the police: “we run, we run, we run”, “we raise our hands”, “continue, continue”.
A brief audio extract of the jihadist attack had already been broadcast, but no image of the massacre of 90 people.
For the distribution of the thirty photos, the president lowers the light. Several civil parties leave the room.
On the screen, the floors strewn with broken glass follow one another at the entrance to the Bataclan, the abandoned handbags, the large streaks of blood then “the bodies, the bodies, the bodies”, as one had described it. policeman at the start of the trial in September.
The court finally accepted on Thursday a repeated request from the victims’ association Life for Paris, which wanted these images to be shown at the hearing.
“An assize trial is first of all to show the scene of the crime. There is no assize trial in which we do not show, even if it is totally painful, dreadful, morbid”, has supported at the hearing Me Jean-Marc Delas, lawyer for the association.