Impressionante: Os Detalhes do Ataque ao Bataclan

Isso que vai acima é o escudo usado pela polícia francesa para invadir o Bataclan nos atentados de Paris da última sexta. Vejam como ele está cravado de balas. O escudo protegeu os policiais dos tiros dos terroristas e acabou salvando todos os reféns que tinham escapado da matança.

O jornal The Telegraph descreveu a sequência dos fatos no ataque ao Bataclan. O Bataclan foi descrito como "Inferno de Dante" por um policial que invadiu o prédio.

Policiais descrevem a amontoado de corpos de mortos sobre corpos de feridos e também sobre corpos de pessoas que se faziam de mortas. Muito sangue, cheiro de corpos mortos.

Os terroristas atiraram a esmo matando dezenas de pessoas,  prometiam aos sobreviventes que eles iam "sofrer tanto quanto àqueles que estão na Síria" e que eles estavam em guerra e iam matar inocentes. Para o negociador da polícia francesa, os terroristas não mostraram que queriam negociar, apenas diziam que iam decapitar os reféns e jogar os corpos pela janela.

Um problema terrível do terrorismo islâmico é que os terroristas não se importam com a própria vida, eles celebram a morte deles próprios. O negociador lida com gente que quer matar e morrer, só isso. Eles saíram em missão para isso, não esperados que voltem. E não devem ser presos pelos "infiéis".

Um policial heroicamente tinha invadido o prédio antes e conseguido matar um terrorista. Mas apenas posteriormente a polícia resolveu invadir.

Vejam a sequência dos fatos:

21.40

Around an hour into an Eagles of Death Metal gig at the Bataclan, Omar Ismail Mostefai, Samy Amimour and a third Isil terrorist burst in through the main entrance and shot security staff in the lobby. Standing on a mezzanine level in front of the bar, they began spraying bullets into the audience standing in front of the stage, killing dozens of people.
In the confusion of the first few moments of the attack, the band managed to flee to the wings while concert-goers tried to escape through fire exits onto the street. Others hid in side-rooms, cupboards, false ceilings or on the roof, while two people, including a pregnant woman, climbed out of upstairs windows and dangled from windowsills to stay out of sight.
“This is war. And it is just the beginning,” one gunman shouted. “We will kill the innocent!”
Two of the terrorists moved up to the first floor balcony, while the third stayed on the ground floor. They slaughtered at random, shooting from windows and doors at people trying to escape.
“It was like Dante’s Inferno,” another officer told Le Monde newspaper.

A pregnant woman hangs from a windowsill outside the Bataclan to escape the gunmen  Photo: Le Monde

 

22.00

The first policeman to arrive on the scene, an officer from the anti-crime branch, bravely made his way into the building where he shot one of the terrorists, who was killed when his suicide vest exploded. Police do not yet know if he detonated it himself or it was set off by the gunshot.
Upstairs, dozens of other concert-goers were either in hiding or in sight of the terrorists, but many of them would have to wait almost two and a half hours longer for their ordeal to end.
“Do you hear their cries, their suffering?” one terrorist asked. “It’s to make you feel the fear that the people in Syria feel every day.”

Bataclan shooting  Photo: YouTube/War Leaks

 

22.15

Elite RAID anti-terrorist police arrived at the theatre to find darkness and silence broken only by the sound of mobile phones ringing unanswered in the pockets of the dead and the survivors pretending to be dead.
“When we went in, it was really dark. There were dozens of bodies lying on top of each other on the ground, the dead, the injured, the survivors who were pretending to be dead,” a policeman identified only as Jean told the TF1 television channel.
“It was like Dante’s Inferno,” another officer told Le Monde. The smell was unbearable, the silence appalling, he said.
Most of the RAID officers were veterans of the assault on the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in January, where Isil adherent Amedy Coulibaly killed four hostages before he was shot dead.
They gradually cleared the ground floor, helping survivors to safety as they did so.

Wounded survivors of the Bataclan massacre are helped to safety  Photo: EPA

 

23.00

Unsure whether the terrorists had fled the building, the officers made their way up two staircases to the balcony, stepping over bodies and bullet casings, while survivors emerged from their hiding places to flee to safety.
“They came out like zombies. They were in a terrible state and could hardly walk,” said Jean.
A medical emergency chain was established at the bottom of the stairs in anticipation of a bloody end to the siege.

Rescuers workers evacuate a man on a stretcher near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris 
Photo: AFP

 

23.15

Having checked the upper floor, the police came to one last door, behind which they thought the remaining bombers were holed up. A voice came from the other side of the door – a hostage who had been sent as an intermediary.
“He shouted out that the terrorists were there and that if we opened the door they would blow everything up,” said Jean.
Behind the door, the terrorists were inflicting mental torture on their 20 hostages. One of them, Sebastien, who has since emerged as a hero after pulling the pregnant woman hanging from the windowsill to safety, said: “They asked us if we agreed with them. I'll let you imagine the lingering silence of that moment. The most timid nodded their heads and the most daring said 'Yes.'
"They asked us to serve as look outs, to yell at the police to stay back and that if not they would blow up their explosive vests.”

French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris  Photo: REUTERS

 

23.27

The terrorists agreed to give the police a mobile phone number and at 11.27pm the first contact was made. A specialist negotiator, who had also spoken to Coulibaly during the Hyper Cacher siege, asked for their demands.
“They didn’t want to free the hostages. They said get out or we will shoot and we will decapitate the hostages,” said Jean. They also said they would throw a body out of a window every five minutes.
Over the next 50 minutes four more calls were exchanged, but the negotiations led nowhere.
Sebastien said at one point the bombers asked him if he had a lighter and then whether he thought money was important. He said no, assuming it would be the answer they wanted.
"They took out a wad of 50-euro bills and I had to burn them," he said. "The other hostages thanked me for not trying to be a hero. The real heros are dead, they died protecting others."
He said something about wanting to put on a shirt because he was cold, and one of the terrorists “told me that I was starting to annoy him", he said.

Outside the Bataclan the morning after the attack

 

00.20

With no progress in the negotiations, the Paris police chief ordered his officers to storm the narrow, 30ft corridor where the terrorists and hostages were. After bursting open the door, the police threw in half a dozen stun and smoke grenades, then advanced in pairs behind a thick metal shield on wheels, called a Ramses.
“As soon as the door was open the terrorists opened fire… the shield alone took about 30 bullets from their Kalashnikovs. The hostages were screaming, throwing themselves on the ground, hugging the walls,” said Jean.
“Each time a pair of officers got past a hostage, the rest of the team would pull them out of there."
After all the hostages were evacuated - miraculously, no-one was injured - the police officers reached the end of the corridor and fired on the killers with HKG36 assault rifles.
One attacker went down, and then the other detonated his suicide vest, killing them both.
The assault had lasted three minutes.