LIVE – Trial of November 13: a doctor of the RAID tells “the urgency to get out of this hell”

After this extraction, the assault was given.

“The area was more secure than before so we were able to bring in help. I went upstairs, first to the BRI to see if any officers had been injured during the assault.”

A man is injured in his hand but already evacuated, “so I didn’t have to deal with him. I spent the rest of the evening exploring the Bataclan which is a complex building with many nooks and crannies. I went in search of the wounded, and I found them, I looked at them, examined them, organized their exit “, remembers Denis Safran.

And to add: “We brought down 80 people hidden, little injured. This is what we did during this dramatic event.”

“There was an immediate evacuation. Long before our arrival, many had already left and had been taken care of. But there, as soon as we arrived, we did everything to ensure that as many people as possible got out as quickly as possible, since this ‘is a place where it can start firing again at any time, other attackers can arrive, the building can explode, “explains the BRI doctor.

“I see the chaos that reigns and inanimate victims on the sidewalk. We enter the Bataclan with the assault column. I have a vision of horror on what is happening inside,” says Dr. Safran .

He is at a reception on the evening of November 13 when he receives alerts about the attacks.

“I call the permanence of the Paris police prefect who does not answer. I immediately deduce that something is happening. It is then that my beeper rings for immediate intervention.”

He joined the BRI and “we are heading towards the Bataclan”.

The hearing resumes with Dr Denis Safran, 73, doctor from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade).

The hearing of the doctor of the RAID, Matthieu Langlois, is over. The courtyard will take a short break until 4.30 p.m.

Are there any improvements since November 13, 2015? asks a magistrate to Dr Langlois.

“Given the absolutely unique nature of what we experienced, obviously this evening was very rich in lessons that we share with the rescue services in France and abroad,” he replies.

“Zoning has become more dynamic with new tools. There is better coordination between the emergency services and the special forces. On the prioritization of victims, we have gone even further to save more time. But it does not. there was no revolution either “

The president asks him if he knows how many victims he evacuated on the evening of November 13, 2015.

“We tried to analyze this number but it is impossible to answer. Obviously, I had never done, never seen that”, answers Dr. Langlois.

Dr. Langlois calls four ladders of firefighters “and we make lines of victims. We make the wounded go first. It is urgent to get out of this hell”.

The evacuation operation ends after the assault, around 1:00 a.m.

He evacuates the wounded for about 40 minutes.

“Then we learn that more than 80 wounded are still hidden on the floors. We have to think about how to evacuate them, knowing that it is out of the question to bring them back through the interior of the Bataclan. We look at the balcony which is to 4 meters and I rush to inform the firefighters that we are far from having finished with the number of victims “.

Arrived in the ditch, the doctor realizes that there are a lot of wounded and dead.

“We know that there are still terrorists in the room and potentially bag bombs. I ask if victims can come towards us. I see an arm that goes up, but all the people who could move have already been evacuated” .

“I tell myself that we have to go get them to put them to safety otherwise, with their type of injuries, it will be too late, we cannot wait for the assault to be given”, explains Dr Langlois.

“We arrive around 11pm, we see the Bataclan and the Amelot passage. We are prepared to act on the mass killings, but I realize that the reality will be much harsher. We see bodies on the sidewalk and a policeman says to us: ‘Take it easy, it shoots’ “.

“The further we advance towards the entrance, the more obvious the situation of chaos is.”

“We were triggered around 9:50 p.m. for terrorist reasons, without further information. We equip ourselves, we prepare our equipment dedicated to emergency care. Two teams are formed: one for the Bataclan, another for the terraces. I make two pairs. for the Bataclan and two pairs for the terraces “, says Dr Langlois.

They set off around 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

He explains that the RAID doctors are trained to operate in dangerous and hostile areas. Mathieu Langlois joined this team in 2008.

“At the time, we were supporting an assault and dealing with one or two wounded, whether police officers or attackers. But after Mohamed Merah, we changed our role to anticipate mass killings and hostage-taking. “

The court now proceeds to the testimony of Dr Mathieu Langlois, doctor of the RAID, the elite unit of the National Police.

“Fraternity is what founds our association. What makes it possible to come closer, to make community. It is a question of comforting each other together and of reaching out to others. What we have experienced can be useful to others” , explains Philippe Duperron.

The court now calls Philippe Duperron, president of the 13onze15 association and father of a young man who died in Bataclan.

“I want to carry the word of the 131 victims who died that day. I also want to carry the voice of those who do not have the strength to come here to express their pain. There are also those who do not feel it. no need. “

The court broadcasts a sound on which we can hear words spoken by attackers at the Bataclan. Interspersed with detonations, the words resonate:

“Everyone on the ground. The first to get up I put a bullet in his head. Is that clear? You want an example? You can blame your president François Hollande.”

The recording ends with the explosion of a belt of one of the terrorists.

The president of Life for Paris wants to underline “how much terrorism has brought together the people who have survived it”.

“Terrorism carries with it the seeds of its failures. As marked as we are, we have been able to come together. Here, we want to say to the victims ‘you are not alone’ and I hope that this will last after the trial “, argues Arthur Dénouveaux.

The president of Life for Paris welcomes “the chance” he has to be alive and explains what motivated him to create his association.

“I feel a responsibility of the survivor. The responsibility to live for those who died, to live more. This is also why the association was created, with the desire to position ourselves on subjects such as memory, the work of justice, compensation. It was a question of creating a crutch, by saying that it would not be eternal “, he develops, specifying that he does not know when the association will be dissolved .

“Which does not mean that our community will disappear,” he insists.

Arthur Dénouveaux, 29 in 2015, was in the pit the evening of the attacks.

“I heard firecrackers and took off my earplugs. Finally I recognized the automatic weapon fire. There was a great crowd movement. I told myself that I had to get out, not especially. not get up so as not to offer a catch to the bullets, “he says.

“I crawled over bodies, people were walking on me. Then I managed to exit through the emergency exit to the left of the room.”

Arthur Dénouveaux, President of Life for Paris, opens this new day of hearing. He wishes to begin his testimony by broadcasting a video of the beginning of the concert of the Eagles of death metal who played the evening of the attacks at the Bataclan.

This for three reasons, he explains. “It shows why over a thousand people were at the concert that night,” he said after the sound of guitars echoed through the hall.

“It shows us what the terrorists saw when they came to assassinate people at the concert. And it also allows us to have a concrete representation of what the Bataclan was that night.”

Yesterday, several former police officers from the “BAC de nuit” in Paris recounted how they “disobeyed” orders to save lives.

Find here the report of the hearing.

This 35th day of hearing is devoted to hearing two associations of victims: Life for Paris and 13onze15.

Then, the doctors of the BRI and the Raid as well as the president of the Ap-Hp will in their turn be heard.

Hello and welcome to this live dedicated to the November 13 trial.

It has been eight weeks and 35 days that the specially composed Assize Court has met to try the 14 defendants physically present, and 6 others by default, for having participated directly or indirectly in the attacks committed on November 13, 2015 in Paris.