(Radio France) Another day of evidence from those who escaped the Bataclan massacre. The Paris attacks trial heard the continuing litany of shock, suffering and guilt. With merciful moments of courage, generosity and hope.
It is not easy to stand in a room full of people and talk about the final seconds of your life.
“I started to say goodbye to my kids in my head. I wondered what it was going to be like after death.”
Others refused the idea of dying, at a rock concert, in Paris. “It was ridiculous, inconceivable!”
There are those who say they remember everything, with blinding clarity. Others speak of a complete blank, as if some protective psychological mechanism was filtering what they were witnessing.
