The dramatic story of the evening lived since the Stade de France – Équipe.fr

On Friday evening, it is 9:17 p.m. ET the France team turned the ball to find the solution in the German defense when a strong explosion sounds. A slight roar is heard in the public and some whistles. Everyone thinks when he is a firecracker or agricultural bomb. Two minutes later, a second explosion was heard and arouses the same reactions. However, in possession of the ball, Patrice Evra, which lies to the east of the lawn at that time, on the same side of the explosion, eyes widen before making a pass and wonder what it happens. Driven by their audience, the Blues finally mark just before the break. Police and fire sirens are already being heard.

At halftime, informed the multiple shootings in the heart of Paris, President Francois Hollande is exfiltrated the Stade de France. A helicopter flies over the enclosure and will remain for more than an hour. In press tribune is the worry: journalists, all connected to social networks through WiFi stage, seek to obtain information. The game becomes secondary. A dozen journalists leave the enclosure to go follow the events from the center of Paris, at the request of their chief editor.

The Blues not aware

The prefect of police, who identified the two blasts as terrorist acts, decides initially to completely close the Stadium France for security reasons. In the corridors of the Stade de France, it is asked Philippe Tournon, the press chief of the Blues, and Didier Deschamps, the coach, not to inform the players who are still in the locker room. The public, it is overwhelmingly ignoring what is happening outside: as often, telephone and internet networks are not easily accessible to the stage with such crowds. It was decided, in the interests of public safety, continue the game.

Without knowledge of the dramatic situation, the audience sings a “Aux Armes, we are the French” to push his team . The Blues mark a second time. A few kilometers away, in central Paris, several deaths have already been announced and held hostage in the Bataclan concert hall. The match is called.

Evacuation and crowd movements

At the final whistle, the prohibition of leave the Stade de France is lifted, especially to avoid jostling. The speaker of the Stade de France explained that there was an “incident” on the outside and announced the closure of the east exit and access to parking.
Players return to the locker room but stop in the tunnel … A television broadcast live images of the attacks. The Blues are frightened. Press conferences breeders and the passage in the mixed zone are canceled. Players from both teams gathered in the lounges or the locker room, their eyes on the rolling news channels while waiting for the final approval to leave.

In the stands, the audience out of the stadium. Several appeals for calm were launched and fans slowly leave the SDF hands in the air or on the head, from the middle of a double-cord CRS illuminating each face the flashlight. We hear the Marseillaise. Arriving at the station “Saint-Denis – Porte de Paris” on the metro line 13, hundreds of fans turn around for some unexplained reason. This stampede refluxed some spectators inside the stadium, the pitch becomes the place waiting for hundreds of them.

Some take the opportunity to climb on the crossbars goals and sing a few songs. In security, they will wait more than an hour that the area is totally secure. Outside, dozens of police car close direct access to the Stade de France, including adjacent streets. Sirens and flashing lights tens spin on the A1 towards Paris where events are not yet finished at midnight. Distributed to spectators before the game tricolor flags float in the hands of supporters last to leave the premises.

The Blues will be evacuated at 2:55 towards Clairefontaine where they will arrive at 3:45. “Shocked,” the Germans will spend the night in the locker room and regain the airport directly in the morning.