Video shows concertgoers fleeing from Bataclan as terrorists attack inside
Details are emerging of the worst attack on French soil since World War II in which terrorists killed 120 people – many of them young concertgoers.
Eight terrorists were killed as they carried out attacks at seven locations across Paris; with the Bataclan concert hall where US band The Eagles of Death Metal played becoming the epicentre of the massacre.
Around 100 young people were killed when three young gunmen entered the concert and opened fire.
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People fled for the lives as the Bataclan fell under siege. Others were trapped as the gunmen carried out indiscriminate executions.
“They are slaughtering everyone. One-by-one,” Frenchman Benjamin Cazenoves wrote on Facebook from inside the hall as "the carnage" unfolded in front of him.
As weary Parisians face a new day after such darkness, new video shows the horror of the attack as it took place.
With gunshots ringing out, dozens of young people fled into a back alleyway to escape the Bataclan. Young music fans spill out into the street in the video too graphic to show.
Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny filmed the escape from his apartment window after hearing what he first thought were fireworks exploding.
"Sometimes there are some rough evacuations, but there, all the world was running from all sides, I saw guys on the floor, blood ... I understood that there was something serious," he said.
A young woman clings to a ledge as she dangles from a second-storey window as others shout to friends and strangers to get out and run.
A number of people lie on the road, one woman using her phone to call for help, too badly injured to move.
Small crowds burst through other exits. One man limps with an injured leg away from the Bataclan to find shelter in a nook in the alley. Other run back to the exits to grab friends and strangers and pull them to safety.
"I thought about the images of September 11th," he told Le Monde from Georges Pompidou European Hospital's emergency apartment. "I then said I would go down to open to people so they can come to take refuge."
Psenny went to the street to help and was shot in the arm. A doctor friend told him how to make a tourniquet as they waited for police to storm the Bataclan.
Journalist Julian Pierce who works at Europe 1 was inside the Bataclan concert hall when the attack began.
"I was inside the concert hall when several gunmen returned in full concert," he told his network.
"Two or three individuals unmasked returned with automatic weapons Kalashnikov type and started shooting blindly into the crowd.
"It lasted about ten, fifteen minutes. It was extremely violent and there has been a wave of panic, everyone ran to the scene, there was trampling scenes, I myself was trampled."
He said he did not hear a word from the gunmen over the cries of the crowd, describing their murderous single-mindedness as they carried out their deadly suicide attack.
"The attackers had time to recharge at least three times," he said.
"They were not masked, masters of themselves. They were very young."
When the concert hall was stormed, all three detonated explosives vests.
