(Radio France) The second week of the Paris hearing at which 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 came to an end with the presentation of the police report on what happened at the Bataclan music venue, where 90 people lost their lives.
“I had never seen anything like it,” senior police crime scene investigator Patrick Bourbotte told the Paris courtroom. “The emergency lighting was cold, white. It created a cathedral atmosphere.
“I walked forward. There was congealed blood on the ground, bone, teeth, bits of clothes, bags, phones … and bodies, bodies, bodies.”
That was the scene at the Bataclan early on 14 November 2015, the morning after the attacks.
