The Eagles of Dying Steel have relived the storming of the Bataclan in the course of the 2015 Paris terror assaults and say that "evil didn't win".
Members of the Californian rock group offered emotional testimony on Tuesday at a landmark trial into the assaults, which killed 130 individuals.
The band had been performing on the Bataclan live performance corridor within the French capital when it was stormed by terrorists of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. The assailants burst by means of the corridor's primary entrance and opened fireplace on the gang on the live performance.
The tour supervisor for Eagles of Dying Steel was among the many 90 victims killed in the course of the hours-long assault on the Bataclan.
Singer Jesse Hughes and guitarist Eden Galindo advised the court docket that the assaults had upended their lives eternally.
"Being from a desert group in California, I do know the sound of gunshots," Hughes stated, visibly emotional.
"I knew that dying was coming," he stated, including that the band “ran for his or her lives”.
Referring to the followers who had attended the live performance, Hughes additionally stated that "almost 90 of my pals have been murdered in entrance of us."
'I am going to by no means be the identical'
Galindo advised the court docket he had escaped the Bataclan by means of a facet door, unaware whether or not the gunmen have been chasing them.
He advised the trial that he ultimately sheltered in a police station “with others there coated in blood.”
"I stay a special life. I’ll by no means be the identical," the guitarist stated he thinks of the victims’ households and prays for them daily.
Hughes completed his testimony by quoting former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne. "Evil didn't win," he stated. "You'll be able to't kill rock and roll."
Salah Abdeslam is the sole surviving member of the IS terrorist cell that attacked a number of areas of Paris on 13 November 2015. All different suspects have been killed by French police or detonated suicide units.
Abdeslam advised the court docket in February that he had modified his thoughts about detonating an explosive vest in the course of the assault. He has additionally damaged executed in tears, requested for forgiveness and expressed condolences for the victims.
The unprecedented trial is predicted to conclude on 29 June, almost seven years after the assaults.
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