(Radio France) On Wednesday, at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, survivors from the Bataclan music venue, where 90 people lost their lives, began to recount their long night of terror and death.
This was the worst.
There is, of course, no hierarchy of horror. The single death of Manuel Dias at the Stade de France caused as much grief and is as much lamented as each individual death at the other places attacked by the jihadists on 13 November 2015.
But the sheer scale, not to mention the brutality, of the Bataclan massacre makes it stand out.
One woman said she had wounds “on her skin, her heart and her soul.” Another spoke of the “blind inhumanity” of the killers.
