A year after the attacks, the music rang again last night at the Bataclan, from the hand of Sting, in an emotional concert that began with a minute of silence in tribute to the 90 people killed there on the 13th of November 2015.
The concert lasted an hour and a half and after the final notes of "The Empty Chair", the last song played by Sting, numerous spectators embraced each other and applauded long, celebrating both the presentation of the british singer as the rebirth of the hall of paris.
it Was with a minute of silence that Sting launched this concert so special: "This evening, we have to reconcile two duties: first, to remember those who lost their lives in the attack and also to celebrate the life, music, in this historic place," he said in French.
After the minute of silence, the musician played the song "Fragile", followed by "Message in a Bottle". On the stage, he was accompanied by trumpeter franco-lebanese Ibrahim Maalouf.
In the living room, with a capacity of nearly a thousand 500 people, met survivors and relatives of the victims who died a year ago, as well as followers of the singer.
"he Had the tone right, it was a magnificent moment", she confided after the show one of the spectators, Stéphane Pocidalo, 35, referring to Sting, who evoked the situation of migrants and that paid tribute to James Foley, the journalist us executed in Syria in 2014 by the terrorist group Islamic State (EI).
"tonight, I’m back to my life as it was before. It is a duty, an obligation to be there because there are 90 people who already can’t come," said Aurelien, one of the survivors.
The thousand tickets that went on sale Tuesday were sold out in less than half an hour.
Jesse Hughes, singer of Eagles of Death Metal, the group of us that played a year ago when there was the attack, and another member of that band could not enter. The direction of the room denied entry by his controversial statements in march.
"They came, I have driven them, there are things one does not forgive," said Jules Frutos, co-director of the hall, at the end of the concert of Sting, in reference to the suspicions expressed by Hughes on the security guards of the Bataclan.
On the night of November 13, 2015, the wave of terror began in the vicinity of the national stadium in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, during the football match France-Germany, and continued in the Bataclan and six terraces of bars and restaurants. The final balance of the attacks, claimed by the EI, was 130 dead.
the commemoration of The first anniversary of the attacks began on Friday at the stadium where the 80 thousand spectators observed a minute of silence before France-Sweden World cup qualifier of 2018.
on This day, exactly a year after the attack, accompanying relatives of the victims, the French president, François Hollande, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and his pair of Saint-Denis Didier grilled steak they will go to the places hit by the attacks: the national stadium, restaurants and bars, Le Carillon, Le Petit Cambodge, La Bonne Bière, Cosa Nostra, Comptoir Voltaire, The Belle Époque, and finally the room Bataclan.
In each stage, you will discover plates with the names of the victims.
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