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    On this day ten years ago Gilles Leclerc took this photo smiling with his girlfriend at the Bataclan concert in Paris. A few minutes later armed gunmen stormed the concert and Gilles laid on top of her to save her. She survived and he didn’t


    On this day ten years ago Gilles Leclerc took this photo smiling with his girlfriend at the Bataclan concert in Paris. A few minutes later armed gunmen stormed the concert and Gilles laid on top of her to save her. She survived and he didn’t

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    1. malik_zz on

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6291204278o

      >Just as France marks the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan massacres, another reminder has come of the permanence of the jihadist threat.

      >A former girlfriend of the only jihadist to survive the November 2015 attacks has been arrested on suspicion of plotting her own violent act.

      >The woman – a 27 year-old French convert to Islam named as Maëva B – began a letter-writing relationship with Salah Abdeslam, 36, who is serving a life sentence in jail near the Belgian border following his conviction in 2022.

      >When prison guards discovered that Abdeslam had been using a USB key containing jihadist propaganda, they traced its origin to face-to-face meetings that the prisoner had with Maëva B.

      >Detectives then looked into Maëva B’s own computer and telephone, where they found evidence she may have been planning a jihadist attack, and on Monday she was placed under judicial investigation along with two alleged associates.

      >With France commemorating 10 years since the worst attack in its modern history, the arrest has focused minds on the enemy that never went away.

      >Six plots have been thwarted this year, says Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, and the threat level remains high.

      >”Unfortunately, no one can guarantee the end of attacks,” President Emmanuel Macron said at the inauguration of the Jardin du 13 Novembre 2015 memorial garden.

      >”But we can guarantee that for those who take up arms against France, the response will be uncompromising.”

      >On the evening of 13 November 2015, jihadist gunmen and suicide bombers conducted a sequence of co-ordinated attacks that culminated in a bloody raid on the Bataclan concert hall in eastern Paris.

      >Before that, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France where a football international was under way. Then others in the gang opened fire with Kalashnikovs on people drinking in bars and cafés not far from the Bataclan.

      >There, a performance by American group The Eagles of Death Metal had just started, when three jihadists burst in and fired indiscriminately into the auditorium. They took hostages and then blew themselves up as police moved in.

      >Overall 130 people were killed, 90 in the Bataclan, and more than 400 treated in hospital. Countless others suffered psychological trauma.

      >The word Bataclan has since become a byword in France for extreme Islamist attacks, in much the same way that 9/11 did in the US.

      >Though there have been other attacks since, like the Nice lorry massacre of July 2016 and the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty in October 2020, the scale and organisation of 13 November 2015 set it apart.

    2. 808Balonypony on

      Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

    7. StevenMC19 on

      I can’t recall exactly, but was this the same night the Stade was bombed during a soccer match?

    13. Perkis_Goodman on

      Wow, that was ten years ago. I was living in the 11th then and not too long after the Charlie hebdu attacks happened not far away. Paris is a terrorists wet dream. I remember looking out of my flat seeing masked men running with assault riffles.

    17. Onphone_irl on

      This lyric comes to mind for me: I’m not a coward, I’ve just never been tested, I’d like to think that if I was I would pass

    19. night_Owl4468 on

      A hero’s death. I fear dying of old age. I do not fear laying down my life early for my family.

    22. mettiusfufettius on

      Wow. Unbelievably heroic. Talk about survivor’s guilt for her though, yikes… I hope she’s doing ok

    24. NurseLMR on

      10 years ago I was in hospital with my first born son, watching the Paris attacks unfolding during the night. Terrifying and fulled with fear and sadness. The world is scary at times, important to remember there are amazing and brave people out there amongst the madness. RiP

    26. PwanaZana on

      While the attack happened, one of my colleague, who was french, was called by one of his friend in france. That buddy was fine, but told my colleague that one of his (the buddy’s) friend was killed.

      Small world.

    27. teringsaus on

      I was attending a concert in my hometown that night. Can’t remember which band but I’m sure one that the crowd at the Bataclan would have liked as wel. It felt so surreal when the news hit. Even now it still sends shivers down my spine.

    28. mothrasballs on

      I wouldn’t really call that smiling….but yea dude was a total hero with an epic mustache 

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