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Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 22:52
- The incident was one of several violent attacks in the French capital on Friday night.
At least 80 people have been killed at Paris venue Le Bataclan as a wave of violence swept through the French capital on Friday, November 13th.
The attack happened during an Eagles Of Death Metal concert, with French police storming the venue later on Friday night. Julien Pierce, a Europe 1 journalist who was inside the Boulevard Voltaire venue when the attack took place, says armed men came in and "fired blindly on the crowd." The Washington Post says members of Eagles Of Death Metal fled from the stage when the attack started and are unharmed. BBC Europe editor Katya Adler tweeted some concert attendees survived by laying flat on the ground in between seats in the gallery. Police say four attackers were killed at the Bataclan, including three who died by detonating suicide belts.
Le Bataclan is a concert venue in Paris's 11th arrondissement. On Thursday, November 12th, it played host to French artist St Germain and the likes of Octave One, Tommy Four Seven and Gary Beck have performed there in recent times. It was one of several venues targeted on November 13th, with attacks also taking place at a restaurant and near the Stade de France.
Some DJs who were scheduled to play in Paris on Friday night, including Detroit artists Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson, had their gigs cancelled or postponed. Nightclubs across the city like La Machine du Moulin Rouge closed for the night due to the events taking place. Following the storm on the venue, President Francois Hollande rushed over to Le Bataclan to deliver a speech. He said "our fight will be merciless, because these terrorists that are capable of such atrocities need to know that they will be confronted by a France that is determined, unified and pulled together..."