They were playing on stage when the terrorists entered the Bataclan.
This Tuesday afternoon, the members of the American group Eagles of Death Metal will be heard at the trial of the attacks of November 13.
The procedure has been suspended since May 6 due to a new case of Covid-19 among the defendants.
The singer of the group Jesse Hughes and the ex-guitarist Eden Galindo are expected at the bar of the special assize court of Paris at the very beginning of the hearing, after a hearing relating to one of the machine-gunned terraces.
The Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan on the evening of November 13, 2015 was abruptly interrupted by Kalashnikov fire.
“A major feeling of guilt”
The members of the group “are like other victims, they live with their painful memories, their trauma.
They drag themselves over the years with a major feeling of guilt, it was their concert, ”said their lawyer, Me Claire Josserand-Schmidt.
In total, 69 survivors or relatives of the victims of the jihadist attacks which left 130 dead and hundreds injured in Paris and Saint-Denis must testify until May 19, at the rate of around twenty hearings per day. .
The pleadings of the civil parties must begin on Friday, May 20.
Due to the new interruption of the trial due to Covid, the verdict is now expected on June 29.
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