(Radio France) The work of the special police units sent to face armed killers is so dangerous that they have their own medical specialists with them during every operation. At Thursday’s session of the Paris attacks trial, two of the doctors who entered the Bataclan with the elite officers sent to stop the massacre explained the difficult choices they had to make.
It can’t have been easy for the families to listen to this evidence.
Denis Safran, chief medical officer of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BRI), told the court that, faced with 200 bodies, his job was to select those, still alive, who had a chance of surviving, and get them quickly to an operating theatre.
“We had minutes in which to save lives,” he said.
