La nota que sigue
fue realizada por Matthew Drake y Dan Warburton para el diario británico The
Mirror. En la misma se cuenta, sobre la base de relatos de testigos, cómo fue
la masacre del pequeño restaurante Le Belle Equipe en París el pasado viernes
13. Pasen y vean.
Título: Paris
terror attacks: Witness at bar massacre says gunmen were 'white, clean-shaven,
muscular - like soldiers' - Gunmen came and left in black Mercedes
Epígrafe:
Shooters, brandishing assault rifles and dressed in black uniforms, were seen
slowly pulling up in the Merc during a series of coordinated atrocities
Texto: Two
heavily armed ISIS gunmen pulled up in a black Mercedes-Benz and calmly
slaughtered scores of innocent diners in a Paris bistro before driving away.
An eyewitness has told how 20 people were executed in a calculated attack on a
busy restaurant in the heart of the French capital as they ate at tables on the
pavement.
A shocking
description of the assassins and their barbaric assault came as the first
eyewitness accounts emerged last night. Mahoud Admo said:
"The gunman
showed no emotion at all as he began spraying bullets into the diners. He just
kept reloading his machine gun and firing, without saying a thing. The people
outside the bar were dead straight away. There were streams of blood everywhere
and broken glass. It was carnage."
Shocking details
of the bloody attack came as France remained on high alert while special forces
continued to hunt for members of the terror cell.
ISIS claimed
responsibility for the sickening attacks which have killed at least 127
people and left up to 60 more seriously injured.
The attack at Le
Belle Equipe took place shortly after the first of three explosions rocked the
Stade de France, where the host nation was playing against Germany.
Mr Admo, 26, who
was staying at the Salvation Army hostel in Rue de Charonne opposite the Le
Belle Equipe, told how gunmen executed patrons in a drive-by attack. Trembling
as he recalled how the massacre unfolded, he said:
"I was just
in my room and had the window open on to the street below. I could see lots
people sat outside the bar eating dinner and enjoying a drink. The place was
full of people just enjoying themselves. At about 9.30pm a new looking black
Mercedes pulled up outside with dark tinted windows at the back and the
passenger and driver windows down. I could clearly see the passenger's face as
he was not wearing a hat or mask.
As soon as the
car stopped he quietly opened the door and got out in front of the restaurant.
That is when I saw he was holding a machine gun that was resting on his hip. I
could not take in what I was witnessing. People outside spotted the shooter
approaching with his gun and tried to run inside but he shot them down in the
doorway.
Then people
inside moved forward to see what was happening and he sprayed more bullets
into them. I was trying to catch them on my camera phone but the gunman saw the
light on my mobile and I ducked down behind the wall as they fired at my hotel.
The gunman calmly reloaded his weapon several times. He then shot up at the
windows in the street to make sure nobody was filming anything or taking
photographs. It lasted over six minutes
He fired lots of
bullets. He was white, clean shaven and had dark hair neatly trimmed. He was
dressed all in black except for a red scarf. The shooter was aged about 35 and
had an extremely muscular build, which you could tell from the size of his
arms. He looked like a weightlifter.
He was not
wearing gloves and his face was expressionless as he walked towards the bar.
The driver had opened his door shortly before the shooting began and stood up
with his arm and a machine gun rested on the roof of the car. He stood there
with his foot up in the door acting as a lookout. I would describe him as tall,
with dark hair and also quite muscular.
They looked like
soldiers or mercenaries and carried the whole thing out like a military
operation. It was clear that they were both very heavily armed and the gunman was
carrying several magazines on him. They both then coolly sat back in the car
and sped off in the direction of the Bataclan Theatre."
After about five
minutes the police and ambulances arrived. There were about 20 bodies lying
dead outside the bar and all the windows around were cracked from bullets. It
was sickening. You could see where people had been shot. There were about eight
ambulances to take injured survivors away. People were crying and screaming as
they began to realise what had happened. Around 5am the dead bodies were laid
out in the street under yellow blankets until they were taken away in
ambulances."
Yesterday
mourners began laying flowers and candles in tribute to the dead outside the
bullet-ridden front of Le Belle Equipe. Fatiha Toun, 25, told of the carnage
left by the gunmen. She said:
"I was
heading to catch a bus when I heard a woman screaming and the rattle of
gunfire. I could see flames rising from the shooter's weapon in the street as
he pointed at the bar. It was hard to tell what was happening in all the chaos.
There were dead people laid on the pavement and one woman had her leg stripped
to the bone where she had been hit with bullets. I saw a child injured outside
but could not tell if they were still alive."
Tobias Ramsie,
27, hid behind in a neighbouring shop as the gunman began peppering the front
of bar. He said:
"I just kept
my head down and prayed no one would see me. I heard the car leave and I was
still too scared to move. I just kept thinking, 'What if he's still here
waiting for more people?'"
Attacks also took
place on Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant. Etienne Athea, a
34-year-old photographer, heard the militants open fire at customers at Le
Carillon. He said:
"It was like
a movie. I thought it was my TV. I didn't know what was happening. I saw the
emergency people, I saw the bodies. I am scared. Sometimes I drink my Coca-Cola
here. Now I don't know if I can go in the bar for a drink because I know people
can kill me."
A forensic team
that had spent more than 12 hours combing the Comptoir Voltaire, on Boulevard
Voltaire, lifted a cordon around the site yesterday. Ten bullet holes were
visible in the glass of the brasserie and a table soaked in blood stood
outside, with armed officers guarding the site.
Fatima Merzouki,
31, a paralegal who lives nearby, said she had eaten at the restaurant on
Thursday night with her boyfriend, Alexander Thiele, 30. She said:
"We were
working late so we met and had dinner. It was calm and lovely. Then yesterday I
walked past and saw the devastation. It's terrifying - we were told a bomber
had exploded a bomb strapped to his chest."
Comment: ISIL has
claimed responsibility for this heinous act. ISIL has also cultivated a particular
image through its propaganda videos. Yet eyewitnesses describe the antithesis
of that image. No masks, no headbands with slogans printed on them, no blacks
flags (a supposed signature left at the scene of the Charlie Hebdo attack and
several other terrorist incidents).
Instead, someone who saw them up close is describing white, clean-shaven
men who look and act like soldiers. Very strange.
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