Responsible for the security of the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, Didi saved dozens, perhaps hundreds, of lives on the night of the attacks. Four years later, he remembers this terrible evening and tells how he was able to move forward despite the trauma.

INTERVIEW

On November 13, 2015, Didi was in charge of Bataclan's security. He is outside the room when he sees the arrival of heavily armed terrorists who will make 90 deaths in the theater. After a first burst, he decided not to run away, as many would have done, but to help the audience. That night, he probably saved dozens, even hundreds of lives. And for many survivors, he became a hero, a reassuring figure. Four years later, to the day, he tells this terrible evening, and its aftermath, for Europe 1.

If Didi decided to enter the room despite the risks, it was because he knew the places by heart. "I found myself also stuck with the hostages in the pit, but I knew this room by heart, I could walk with my eyes closed in this room, it helped me a lot too," he says. Didi opens several emergency doors, despite the gusts. "It takes a lot of luck, I was not touched, it was a miracle given my exposure, it could have helped, it's the main one," says the one whose wife was pregnant, and who became father since that night.

"Others have told me clearly, 'if you're not here, I'm not coming back'"

Didi is among those who think that the Bataclan had to be reopened. And that he, personally, should stay too. "It's also a way forward for some people I was able to save, to come back when I'm here because it reassures them," he says. "After, it's according to each personality, everyone has experienced the shock, after these attacks, in their own way.There are some who do not want to come, even to pass the Bataclan.There are some who took a year to come, two years, others have told me clearly 'if you're not here, I'm not coming back.' Everyone feels this way. "

Didi stayed at the Bataclan so, a way for him to say that the terrorists did not win. "I did not want to stop there, I did not want these events to stop me, it's like an admission of failure," he insists. "It's clear that it's not obvious every day, I'm in favor of saying 'Do not forget, but we have to move on, I could not stop there after the attacks, and I know that motivated a lot of people that I could help to come back in this room, to resume the course of life and not to be shattered by all these feelings that can come back, these images that can come back in the head. also motivated me to say that I had to be there for reopening. "