Frightening Details Of The Bataclan Theatre Massacre Revealed

Paris: According to a testimony in a disturbing French report, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as  ISIS)terrorists who attacked the Bataclan theater in Paris in November 2015 not only killed scores of innocents — they also gouged out the eyes and sliced up the genitals of some of the victims.

On November 13^th, 2015, a coordinated terrorist attack in the theatre killed 89 people. According to two secondhand accounts reported to a parliamentary commission set up to investigate the attack, some victims’ bodies from the second floor of the theater had been beheaded, eviscerated and otherwise mutilated

The investigation’s chair, conservative lawmaker Georges Fenech, complained to the commission that details of the mutilations have been kept from families and the press, according to an online transcript. He also said he had heard of one especially grievous account: The father of one victim had told him that his son had been disemboweled and castrated, with his testicles found in his mouth. “They had cut off his testicles,” Fenech said during testimony.

French law-enforcement officials who also testified for investigators insisted, meanwhile, that there was no evidence that victim injuries were caused by anything other than gunfire and shrapnel.

One official, Michel Cadot, the prefect of police in Paris, stressed that no knives were recovered from the scene. “Some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies,” said investigator Christian Saint. But Fenech stood by his account. “Someone put his testicles in his mouth,” he said.

The torture allegations surfaced in March during some 200 hours of testimony before an investigative committee of the French National Assembly. The investigation found a lack of coordination among European intelligence agencies, which failed to prevent coordinated attacks that left 130 dead at six locations in and near Paris. “The bodies have not been shown to the families because they are people who are decapitated, people who are bloated and people who have been disemboweled,” one police witness told officials, according to the transcript. “There are people decapitated, swollen and disemboweled. There are signs of sexual acts committed against women and knife cuts to genitals. If I am not mistaken, some of the eyes of certain people have been removed,” the witness said.

The witness was later asked by Fenech how he had come to learn of the acts of barbarism. He answered that he himself had only witnessed bodies struck by bullets, on the ground floor.

But he learned the gruesome details from another investigator, whom he found vomiting and crying after seeing the carnage upstairs, he told investigators.

The Bataclan theatre is located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built in 1864, it has been a “legendary” venue for rock music since the early 1970s.