Trial of the November 13 attacks: chilling audio sounds at the hearing
At the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, a chilling audio sounded at the hearing of October 28, 2021 at the request of the Life for Paris association.
Its president Arthur Dénouveaux, himself a survivor of the Bataclan, had just suggested at the bar that after 5 weeks of testimonies from the victims, disseminating photos and sounds of the attack could make it possible "to realize in another way of the horror ".
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At the trial of the November 13 attacks, a chilling audio sounded at the hearing at the request of the Life for Paris association.
Its president Arthur Dénouveaux, himself a survivor of the Bataclan, had just suggested at the bar that after 5 weeks of testimonies from the victims, disseminating photos and sounds of the attack could make it possible "
to realize in another way of horror
”.
The president then played some 4 minutes from a dictaphone that was left on during the attack.
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With our special correspondent, Laura Martel
In mid-September, the court had already broadcast thirty seconds of this recording.
We could hear rock music interrupted by the first gusts and then the first cries, against a background of feedback.
It was the very beginning of the attack.
This time, in the midst of a hubbub, the voices of the terrorists rise, implacable.
“
Everyone on the ground.
French and American soldiers are bombing our brothers in Syria and Iraq.
We are men, we are bombing you on earth.
We don't need a plane.
Did you elect François Hollande?
Thank him
"
A powerful shot sounds.
Outbursts in the courtroom.
"
The first to move, I'll shoot him in the head, that's clear, you want an example?"
One of them threatens.
The hubbub has died down.
Between the diatribes and the sporadic shootings, we do not hear a cry, this silence is terrible.
We are about eight minutes after the start of the attack, the terrorists have just killed dozens of people, two of them have now climbed to the balcony from where they are firing piecemeal at the pit.
But their voices do not quiver.
They state their demands almost casually.
Like a lesson badly learned, they repeat: "
You can go after your president François Hollande
", punctuated with variants "
the hour of revenge has sounded
", or "
it is to him that you owe this massacre and this. is just the beginning
”.
Then a terrorist yells: "
Get out, motherfucker!"
», Followed by an exchange of fire and an explosion.
The belt of Samy Amimour, targeted by the commissioner of the BAC, has just exploded.
For 4 minutes, the room held its breath.
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Trial of the November 13 attacks