Terrorists ‘wanted Yanks’ during Bataclan attack

From the French edition of The Local

 

“Where is the singer? Where are Yanks?”

 

These are the words that were reportedly spoken by the three terrorists who went on a bloody rampage at the Bataclan in Paris last month. 

 

On the stage at the time was the band Eagles of Death Metal, the members of which fled and escaped with their lives. Ninety others who were at the venue weren’t so fortunate. 

 

The information comes courtesy of the leaked judicial inquiry, details of which were published on Monday by Le Figaro newspaper

 

Witnesses said that one of the terrorists took time out from the killing spree to play a few notes on a nearby xylophone, “laughing sarcastically” at the hostages. Others reported that a gunman said: “You are bombing with the Americans, so we are targeting you and the Americans”.

 

The Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has raised eyebrows in France with his vehement opposition to gun control in the US and support for Donald Trump, the controversial Republican contender for the White House.

 

Le Figaro also reported investigation details about the failed attack at the Stade de France football match, where three suicide bombers took their own lives and that of one bystander. The men had repeatedly tried to get inside the building before the game began, the paper reported, “whispering in Arabic” at the time.    

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