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Paris: a Thousand questions remain
A concert as catharsis and a parliamentary investigation – helps the families of terror victims on their long way back to normality? From Paris reported Elizabeth Bryant.
Why it took two hours, until the police the Bataclan stormed, while in the concert hall Wounded next to the dead lay and slowly bled to death? One of the thousands of questions that relatives of the victims of the attack of 13. November. Alone in the Bataclan died this evening 90 people, as the Islamist terrorists with Kalashnikovs in the crowd shot up.
Why were the lines busy, as they tried to gather information about your loved one to come? Yet a question that many families of the victims. “We expect answers,” says Georges Salines, via Twitter, from the death of his daughter Lola had to learn. His statement that he could in front of a parliamentary Commission of inquiry, which this week in Paris has begun its work.
Every Detail counts
There described Caroline Langlade, in the Bataclan, together with 40 other hostages in a neighbouring room, hidden, as you can with your mobile phone tried to the police to ask for help. You’ve told her you must speak louder, and, as you tried, your able to explain, finally hung up.
“13 November: brotherhood and truth’: Georges Salines with another member of the group
The Commission, of the conservative Opposition requested, to July report. For some of the Survivors and the families of the victims, it is extremely important that every Detail of the attacks to know. This can be an important step in the healing process.
A small part of truth
“I don’t think that we have the whole truth”, but perhaps a small part of the truth,” said the 29-year-old Emmanuel Domenach, the plot in Bataclan survived. The people want to know what to do with your son, brother or father is done. And as young Frenchmen and Belgians to come, could other young people to kill.”
Back in Paris on the stage: The “Eagles of Death Metal”
Several Opferverbände have been in the past few weeks formed, including “13 November: brotherhood and truth”, a network that relatives of the Victims and Survivors of connects. Georges Salines, a doctor, is the unification. It helps the members, in the thicket of bureaucracy to gain state help to find the right. The Association would also like to as a legal Person for a process to occur, so more information to gain.
Return of the “Eagles of Death Metal”
For some family members and Survivors was the return of the Band “Eagles of Death Metal” a crucial Moment. It is not played at the Bataclan, which has not yet re-opened, but in the Olympic hall, where much of the security staff, the appearance of protecting the public.
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Emmanuel Domenach, in November using a Doorman from the Bataclan could escape, was now in the new edition of the concert. “Before, I had the fear that the concert to be sad would be that it is too much for the 13. November would go. But the Band gave us two and a half hours a really good Show.”
A symbolic Moment
“I the Moment enjoyed,” said Domenach, in the legal Department of the state railway company SNCF is working. “even though I always get back to a girl think had, in the Bataclan right next to me dancing and now is dead.”
Since the stop fights Domenach with depression. He is afraid sometimes, afraid of the subway or go to the cinema. Since Recently go it to him, but better, he says. As Salines, he belongs to the group “13 November: brotherhood and truth.”
Also Salines was to re-concert, the Band came, even though the “Eagles of Death Metal”, so he says, “not my thing”. “I wanted to be there and this concert with to complete, as it Bandleader Jesse Hughes has expressed. It was a symbolic Moment.” His family hold strong together and get a lot of support, says Salines. “We are loss to overcome, but it is not easy.”