Watch: Video captures Bataclan concert hall attack, gunshots pierce through music
Paris: A new video has emerged that captures the early moments of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall where the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was performing.
The video begins with the rock band performing a number and soon loud gunshots can be heard piercing through the music and the drummer of the band can be seen ducking for cover.
Some eyewitnesses had mistaken the gun shots as a part of the performance until the true horror of what was happening struck them.
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— E???? ?O???Egu? (@ErikaLopategui) November 15, 2015A French survivor of the rampage at Paris' Bataclan concert hall says he was struck by how young the attackers were.
Julien Pearce, journalist at Europe 1 radio, was at the Bataclan concert hall on Friday to attend the concert by the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. He said when the three attackers stormed in "it took me few seconds to realize it was gunshots."
Pearce and his friends immediately got down on the ground to avoid the random shots, then ran and crawled into a tiny dark room next to the stage. He says "there was no exit, so we were just in another trap, less exposed, but still a trap."
Pearce said could discreetly look out and see one of the assailants. He says "he seemed very young. That's what struck me, his childish face, very determined, cold, calm, frightening."
Once the attackers reloaded, his group rang across the stage to the emergency exit, helping a wounded woman out. Looking back, he saw "dozens and dozens of entangled, bullet-riddled bodies in a pool of blood."
Eighty-nine people were killed at the hall.
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