Horrifying Video Shows Terror Outside Paris Theater
Below, courtesy of USA Today, is a video that shows people fleeing the Paris theater that came under attack.
You’ll note the police bunching up and seeking “cover” behind a glass-walled building, and then (wisely) retreating once one of the Muslim terrorists opens up on them with an AKM.
The video released by Le Monde shoes a few concert-goers running past a conscious victim but who’s unable to move apart from his arm as if desperately asking for help.
A few people are even seen dragging bodies down the street. “That’s when I understood this was something serious”. “He could have asked me to leave, but he let me [stay] there”.
Those outside the packed venue said they heard five continuous explosions followed by gunshots during the police assault. There was a man lying on the sidewalk”, he recalled, “With another man we tried to drag him to safety in the lobby.
Another witness told French media, “There was blood everywhere, they were firing a pump-action shotgun into the crowd”.
“We called the emergency services, but they could not evacuate us”.
Moments earlier, jihadists shouted “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – and started indiscriminately killing those who were crammed into the venue to see U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal.
This was just one portion of the horrifying six-point attack in Paris on Friday – gunmen also killed pedestrians dining at busy restaurants, and bombs were set off right outside an arena where France was playing Germany in soccer. I could feel his fear.
Officers finally stormed the Bataclan three hours after the attack began.
The reporter, who had been working from home at the time, said he heard a noise “like fireworks” but assumed it was part of a film about police that was showing on TV at the time.