How have we lived the evening at the Stade de France, that France and Germany where football quickly receded into the background? It took some time, about an hour before understanding that the two explosions were of criminal origin.
9:15 p.m.
First astonishment. Around the 15th minute, the press box means a huge boom seems to come across. We then said that given the lack of atmosphere at the Stade de France, it is simply an agricultural bomb, classic football stadiums. Much less, however, in the cave of the France team, haunt of families coming in an atmosphere generally good child. After a good first quarter of an hour, we still feel this loud bang calm the players. “This is a platform that collapsed or what?” , one hears. But we do not care more than that … The pace nevertheless falls on the lawn and in the stands. We forget.
9:25 p.m.
And then 10 minutes later the same boom. Again, we say that a bear has managed to penetrate huge firecrackers in the stadium … We then asked what security did not see anyone move since the first time. On the second shot, the yellow men are agitated a little more, but it is understood that at halftime why they could not do anything … During the game, most journalists and people do not watch them laptop and computer, not many people did not suspect what he had just happened. The information was not yet widespread.
9:50 p.m.
For us, at the Stade de France, everything started to halftime. First, we hear an explosion in a bar nearby, one behind the East Stand near the Decathlon. Then becomes aware of the existence of a first shooting in Paris. Later, we say that this is not necessarily linked to the events of the Stade de France, in view of the multiplicity of places of attacks in the capital and the fact that Saint-Denis, we thought again to double accidental explosion from a brewery.
10:15 p.m.
During the second period, we learn that nail grenades have been used in suicide attacks in order to make the most possible victims. One imagines that the bombers wanted to enter the stadium, they were prevented, in particular being Francois Hollande at the scene. Helicopters fly over the stadium. It also evokes a third explosion at the half. That one, if it has occurred in the same place, we have not heard. We had returned to a room inside, even where we have taken note of all these raw information.
10:50 p.m.
After the final whistle, there’s this message from the speaker that we do not hear very well and which asks people to evacuate “due to incidents outside the stadium” . Several thousand people then come back running to the lawn. Miraculously, perhaps with a new intervention of the speaker calling for calm, everything happens in relative serenity. One wonders if people have insight into the body outside, they heard the news that on leaving and thought it was live … Finally, we hear later that it was because of a petard. “Everything is canceled, the press conference and mixed zone” , meets us in charge of relations with the press. With spite and disgust, as evidence against the horror of the situation.
0:15
While the lawn and stadium are empty, we are asked to evacuate. Outside, all is quiet and there is hardly a cat in the streets. As after all other matches at the Stade de France, almost. “I keep receiving calls from my family since earlier” , even when it bear loose on the phone to a friend. Surprised by the low police presence at the entrance to the nearest metro station to the Stade de France, outside and inside, we start thinking about many things, but certainly not football. Much later, we hear of explosive belts instead of grenades. And we know that there should be many, many more victims.
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