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Wednesday 9 December
Eagles of Death Metal members revisit Paris attack site
A member of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes pays his respects to 89 victims aged Paris theater where “bailed off my stool” with
who died in a Nov. 13 attack, at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, they survived a massacre the initial shots.
2015. Members of the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal are back at the ravaged Paris by Islamic extremist suicide “I saw two guys out front,
theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers. bombers. and that might be the most
Solemn and silent, they awful thing ever, is them re-
(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) came to the now-shuttered lentlessly shooting into the
Bataclan theater in east- audience,” he said.
OLEG CETINIC PARIS (AP) — Members of Eagles of Death Metal on ern Paris, whose facade Co-founder Hughes said in
Associated Press the California rock band Tuesday revisited the rav- has become a shrine to the interview that he wants
the 89 people killed inside. the group to return to the
Band members laid flowers Bataclan when the con-
at the site under a persis- cert venue reopens.
tent December rain, some The band made a surprise
embracing as they stared return to Paris and per-
at the wreaths, notes and formed with U2 on Monday
banners heaped in mourn- night, their first onstage ap-
ing and tribute. pearance since the Nov.
Singer Jesse Hughes cov- 13 attacks that killed 130
ered his face as he paced people overall in Paris.
pack and forth. Drummer U2 were playing the last of
Julian Dorio wiped away four concerts in Paris, two
tears. of which had been post-
On that fateful Friday poned when France an-
night, the band members nounced a state of emer-
dispersed to escape the gency following the at-
carnage, one running up- tacks.
stairs, others slipping out a U2 frontman Bono told
side door. They all ended the audience they said
up at the police station. he wanted to introduce
Drummer Julien Dorio said “some people whose lives
in an emotional interview will forever be a part of this
with Vice and HBO that he city of Paris.q
