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Bataclan

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

‘Islamophobic’ Board official was ‘criticising the Paris terrorists’ (LINK ONLY)

January 20, 2022 EoI News  

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Health & Medicine

Manchester Arena inquiry: Reduced first aid training ‘a deliberate choice’

January 18, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A police force which responded to the Manchester Arena bombing was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training at the time, the inquiry into the attack has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial halted after suspect gets Covid

January 17, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The trial over the deadly November 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been suspended after a second suspect tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the case told AFP on Monday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, accused of helping prepare the massacres […]

Health & Medicine

Manchester Arena inquiry: Bataclan attack doctor explains response

January 17, 2022 Mat Trewern  

(BBC) A doctor has told the Manchester Arena inquiry how he treated casualties at the 2015 Bataclan theatre massacre despite the on-going threat around him. The inquiry into the 2017 bombing is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed […]

Legal

First suspect takes stand in Paris attacks trial

January 11, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The main defendant in France’s marathon trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks was back in the dock Tuesday, as the questioning of suspects resumed following a weeks-long Covid delay. Salah Abdeslam is the only survivor among the 10 assailants who […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial set to resume, French media report

January 10, 2022 Tassilo Hummel  

(Reuters) The main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris has recovered from his COVID-19 infection, allowing the trial into the attacks to resume soon, French media reported on Monday. Salah Abdeslam “is in a position […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial to be paused after main suspect catches COVID — source

December 31, 2021 Tassilo Hummel  

(Reuters) The trial of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris, and others will be paused briefly in January as Abdeslam has caught the coronavirus, a judicial source told Reuters on Friday. […]

Legal

This week in court: Families of terrorists follow Belgian police in search for answers

December 12, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There was another shift in the atmosphere at the special criminal court in Paris this week. The televised evidence from anonymous Belgian police investigators came to an end, and real witnesses once again appeared at the bar. They were no […]

Legal

Paris attacks court asks relatives of dead terrorists to explain what went wrong

December 11, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There is a problem. Now that the families of the deceased terrorists and other accused are giving evidence at the Paris attacks trial, the court is faced with the emotional dilemma of fathers, brothers, sisters who must condemn the barbarous […]

Legal

How the Islamic State ran its meticulous terror operation from Syria

November 21, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) During the past week at the Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried over the November 2015 terrorist killings that cost 131 people their lives, witnesses offered a chilling glimpse of the methodology of murder elaborated by […]

Legal

Court hears of family life and terrorist trajectories of slain Bataclan killers

November 20, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Friday, the special criminal court in Paris continued to hear evidence of anonymous police investigators, this time on the terrorist careers of the three Bataclan killers: Sami Amimour, Ismaël Mostefaï and Fouad Mohamed Aggad. Amimour appears to have become […]

Government & Politics

Former interior minister says he will be haunted by Paris attacks ‘until my last breath’

November 17, 2021 Juliette Jabkhiro  

(Reuters) The minister in charge of France’s security at the time of the 2015 attacks in Paris in which Islamist gunmen killed 130 people told a court on Wednesday that he was haunted by the question of whether authorities could have done […]

Government & Politics

France’s far-right Zemmour under fire over Bataclan tirade

November 14, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) French far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour came under fire on Sunday for delivering a blistering attack on ex-president Francois Hollande’s migration policy during commemorations marking the November 2015 Paris attacks. Zemmour, an ultra-nationalist TV pundit who has made no secret of […]

Government & Politics

A week of contrasts at Paris attacks trial, as France marked 6th anniversary of the massacres

November 14, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) A short week of sharp contrasts at the Paris special criminal court where the trial is taking place of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. With the 11 November national holiday, and […]

Government & Politics

Harris, French PM lay wreaths six years on from Paris terror attacks

November 13, 2021 Romain Fonsegrives and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) US Vice President Kamala Harris and French Prime Minister Jean Castex laid wreaths at a Paris cafe and France’s national football stadium Saturday, six years since deadly terror attacks that left 130 people dead. The attacks by three separate teams of […]

Clerics & Preachers

Paris Muslim leaders mark 6 years since Bataclan attacks

November 12, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AP) The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary Friday of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital that killed 90 people. Muslim leaders laid a wreath at the venue in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, one day before a […]

Government & Politics

‘Democracy stronger than barbarism,’ Hollande tells attacks trial

November 10, 2021 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) Former French president Francois Hollande on Wednesday told the trial held over the November 2015 Paris terror attacks he had no regrets about ordering airstrikes against the Islamic State group, which the assailants claimed as justification for the bloodshed. Hollande, who […]

Government & Politics

Ex-president Hollande to testify in Paris attacks trial

November 9, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Former French leader Francois Hollande will testify Wednesday in the trial over the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, facing questions over how a jihadist commando was able to evade detection while preparing the atrocities that would shake France to its core. […]

Legal

Mother of Bataclan attacker faces trial in Paris for ‘financing terrorism’

November 4, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(Euronews) The mother of one of the 2015 Bataclan concert hall attackers is facing trial in Paris, accused of “financing terrorism.” Fatima Hajji, 53, is charged with sending €13,000 to her son and his partner while they were in Iraq and Syria, […]

Health & Medicine

The police medics forced to make life-and-death choices on the Bataclan floor

October 29, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(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 […]

Law Enforcement

Bitter testimony from the Bataclan’s forgotten police heroes

October 28, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Everyone knows about the heroism of the specialised BRI and RAID police units, the men who finally confronted the terrorists and saved the hostages at the Bataclan. But the bravery of the 17 men of the Paris Anti-Criminal Brigade (BAC […]

Health & Medicine

Father describes the tragic fate of the 131st victim of the November 2015 massacres

October 27, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) One hundred and thirty people were killed on the night of 13 November 2015, or died shortly afterwards from their injuries. But there was one other victim, who escaped physically unhurt, only to take his own life two years after […]

Legal

‘We don’t hate you,’ sister of British Bataclan victim tells accused in Paris trial

October 26, 2021 Clare Byrne  

(AFP) The sister of the only Briton killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks told 14 people on trial in Paris over the bloodshed on Tuesday that while she and other victims’ families “deplore what you did, we don’t hate you.” Nick […]

Legal

Bataclan families speak of the impossibility of forgetting, the difficulty of forgiving

October 26, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Testimony from bereaved families continues before the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in the French capital. “The suffering is a relentless part […]

Legal

Tragic litany of loss as Bataclan survivors and bereaved families continue to testify

October 24, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Bataclan survivors, hostages, police officers and the families of victims continued their tragic testimonies this week at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in which […]

Legal

Last words, last hopes, lasting fears: The endless night of the Bataclan families

October 23, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Friday, at the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 Paris massacres of 130 people, the families of some of the 90 Bataclan victims attempted to describe their on-going […]

Legal

Sad parade of the fathers, widows and orphans of the Bataclan dead

October 22, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) “When my father died at the Bataclan, I was seven years old. I didn’t know what death meant.” With testimony from the families of victims continuing at the November 2015 terror trial, the profound sadness in the wake of the […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial hears devastating testimony of long-term impact of attack

October 21, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on […]

Legal

Bataclan survivors recount ‘chatting’ with attackers during the assault

October 20, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) After the explosion which killed Sami Amimour, the two surviving murderers lined up a group of terrified hostages and began herding them along the left-hand balcony of the Bataclan, in the direction of the stage. “It was,” explained one of […]

Legal

No one got out of the [Bataclan] untouched — not even the survivors

October 19, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Few of the witnesses who chose to go to the Bataclan concert on 13th of November 2015 from the right-hand balcony were seriously injured physically in the terrorist attack. But what they saw, heard and suffered has left none of […]

Health & Medicine

Bataclan survivor’s testimony highlights importance of post-PTSD care

October 17, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The second week of witness evidence from those who survived the attack on the Bataclan music venue has been full of grief, guilt and the seemingly endless struggle to turn the page emotionally. One young woman told two anecdotes, one […]

Legal

A day of disruption, sadness and rage as Bataclan survivors continue to testify

October 16, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Friday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks, heard the anger and grief of the survivors and their families expressed in different accents, […]

Legal

Time is taking a heavy toll, say broken families of Paris attacks victims

October 15, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There are no easy days at the Paris attacks [trial], but Thursday’s evidence from the families of victims was particularly intense. We heard from a woman who lost her sister in the attack on the Belle Équipe restaurant in central […]

Legal

Bataclan murders: A mother remembers the day the sun went out

October 14, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Wednesday’s Paris terror trial hearing opened with evidence from Luciana Milani Solesin, the mother of Italian national Valeria Solesin, who was murdered by Islamists at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital on 13 November 2015. Behind the dignified […]

Legal

The bereaved families of Bataclan victims get their chance to speak

October 13, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Survivors of the Paris terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015 continue to testify before the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the planning and preparation of a night of […]

Legal

Bataclan survivors offer accounts of a night of violence, horror — and heroism

October 10, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The fifth week of the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of involvement in the November 2015 attacks was marked by the start of hearings of the evidence from survivors of the Bataclan, the concert venue where 90 of […]

Legal

Trying to live a life ‘submerged by permanent sadness’ after Bataclan attack

October 9, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Friday’s witnesses came from Los Angeles, from Turkey, from the central French Nièvre region. And, as from the start of the witness testimony, all the stories from the Bataclan survivors and their families are the same. And each is absolutely […]

Legal

Bataclan survivor came to court ‘to laugh at’ accused Paris attackers

October 8, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) At the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings of 130 people, survivors of an attack at the Bataclan concert hall on Thursday described the night of horror […]

Legal

Wounded in ‘body, heart and soul’ by ‘blind inhumanity’ at the Bataclan

October 7, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(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 […]

Legal

Paris attack survivors relive horror of ‘playing dead’ at Bataclan

October 6, 2021 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Wednesday told the trial being held over a night of bloodshed in the French capital they “played dead” on the ground for hours to avoid being […]

Legal

Scars from 2015 Paris stadium bombing still pain victims

September 28, 2021 Lori Hinnant  

(AP) It is almost the forgotten attack of Nov. 13, 2015: France’s national stadium was the sole site outside Paris to come under assault that night from Islamic State extremists. The three suicide bombers who struck killed one man out of the […]

Law Enforcement

Man claiming to be former ISIS fighter arrested for threatening French police

September 28, 2021 Chris Tomlinson  

(Breitbart) A man who claimed to be a former Islamic State fighter was arrested in Perpignan, France, after threatening to attack several police stations with a Kalashnikov rifle. The suspect had called stations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Narbonne, and the Paris […]

Legal

Bataclan attack survivors to testify at Paris trial

September 27, 2021 Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) Survivors of the November 2015 Paris attacks will testify at a historic trial from Tuesday, reliving the most traumatic events of their lives as they try to put the horror into words. One by one over the coming weeks, 300 survivors […]

Law Enforcement

Third week of Paris terror trial marked by contrast between cowardice and courage

September 26, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was entirely devoted to police and expert evidence. Much of what we heard and saw was difficult for the families of […]

Legal

Bombs, bodies and Islamic State propaganda shock Paris terror trial

September 25, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in Paris came to an end with three very different reports from expert witnesses. The themes were DNA, explosions and Islamic […]

Health & Medicine

Mistakes and misunderstandings at the mortuary added to the misery of the bereaved

September 24, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The eleventh day of the Paris court hearing into the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 was devoted to the medical machinery which handled the bodies of the victims, and the frequently inadequate […]

Law Enforcement

In the midst of the horror, Bataclan heroism has its golden moment

September 23, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) At a criminal trial centred on the violent deaths of 130 people, there are no good days. But there are less bad ones. On Wednesday, after nine hearings devoted to the catalogue of cowardice and horror, heroism finally had its […]

Legal

A difficult week for the families as Paris terror trial goes over the forensic details

September 19, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The second week of the Paris trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killing of 130 people brought us from the legal technicalities of the crimes allegedly committed to the stark humanity of the dead, the […]

Law Enforcement

Paris court comes to terms with the indescribable as events at the Bataclan are remembered

September 18, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(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 […]

Legal

Reliving the horror of Paris attacks as police experts detail ‘crime scenes’

September 17, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) This trial of 20 men accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks which cost the lives of 130 people in Paris on 13 November 2015 was always going to be difficult for the families of those killed or injured. The […]

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