Paris Bataclan music hall survivor describes the horror and how some escaped: 'It was a bloodbath'

After Friday night’s Paris terrorist attack, a survivor gave an chilling and emotional account of his experience inside the Bataclan music hall, where terrorists began randomly shooting killing 89 people. During a CNN phone interview, Julien Pierce describes, In broken English and with great detail—the unimaginable horror:

“The show was about to end. The band Eagles of Death Metal was playing for almost an hour, and uh, suddenly we heard gunshots coming behind us. And when I, I looked back, I saw at least two men, unmasked men, maybe there were three, but… the confusion, I can’t tell you exactly, but they were holding assault rifles, AK-47s, I’m sure about it. And they were firing—firing randomly... the crowd. And, so obviously we all lie down on the floor to not get hurt, and it was a huge panic, and the terrorists—sorry (clearing his throat), shot at us for like 10 or 15 minutes. It was like—it was a blood bath.

And they shot at us, and they reloaded again (voice shaking) several times, multiple times and it’s actually what, um… I escaped because they reloaded, basically—I just waited for the time they reloaded to run, to climb the scene and to hide behind it. And I try to help a few people around me, and it was, It was shocking. I mean it was panicking, huge panic. So they shot at us 10—15  minutes. It was long, it very, very long and the Bataclan is not a huge room. It’s… about 1,000 people can gather it, but it was, it was overcrowded. I mean, there were no empty room.. It was sold out, basically, so (Pierce takes a heavy breath) it was easy for them.

 
The world continues to mourn for the victims of ISIS terror, and the many families who have lost their loved ones. French President François Hollande says he will seek a ‘pitiless’ war against the Paris attackers.