A disturbing, chilling and heartbreaking recording from an abandoned dictaphone from the massacre at the Bataclan during the Paris terror attacks have been unveiled by investigators. The recording gives you insight on the despair and wickedness that the terrified concertgoers had to endure while ISIS terrorists slaughtered innocent victims at the ill-fated Bataclan theatre.
The dictaphone, which was most likely brought by a concertgoer to record the Eagles of Death Metal show, was recovered in working condition at the bloody scene were 89 people were mercilessly murdered by Islamic State jihadists on November 13 of last year.
The dictaphone contains two-and-a-half-hours of audio, including the concert, the excruciating time that the ISIL terrorists wreaked homicidal havoc, and up until the gruesome attack ends. The recording features the terrorists explain their motives for their carnage, as well as innocent victims plea for their lives. The transcript of the recording is grim and unsettling.
Here is an excerpt of the recordings from that awful, awful day:
9.47pm: Attacks begin
9.56pm: [Police radio] “There’s loads of people at the Bataclan. And there have been shots fired.”
[Now, audio from the dictaphone]
Spectator: “Get down!”
Spectator: “Is this a dream, or what?!”
Attacker: “Get up or I’ll kill you.”
Attacker: “Stay down or I’ll fire,”
Attacker: “You have bombed our brothers in Syria and in Iraq. Why are we here? We’ve come back from as far as Syria, to do the same to you.”
Attacker: “We are men and we will attack you from the ground. We don’t need jets. You elected your President Hollande, and that was his campaign. You have him to thank for this.”
Attacker: “Whoever tries at playing justice will be killed [gunfire heard]. The moment of revenge is upon us.”
[There now follows 12 solid minutes of gunfire captured on the dictaphone before more voices…]
Attacker: “You know about Daesh? Daesh, that’s the Islamic State. They are everywhere. In France, in the USA. We will strike everywhere.”
[Then, the first armed police officer enters the concert hall, surprising an attacker]
“Get out! Get out you ******”
[Officer fires at attacker as he detonates his suicide belt]
Attacker “Allah Akbar!”
[Two attackers climb onto the concert hall balcony and start dialogue with police, via a spectator who is against a door, along with a group of hostages]
Spectator: “We have been taken hostage. They have explosive belts. Please don’t come in, or else they’ll blow everything up.”
[Now, a spectator’s mobile phone is used by police to communicate with the attackers. But the calls don’t go well.]
Police: [Police radio] “Get them out of there. It’s really bad.”
12.17am: Final assault on the concert hall takes place
[SkyNews]