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Reliving the terror of the Bataclan massacre

Emmanuel Carrère knows when to let the horrors speak for themselves in his moving, hard-hitting account of the trial of the perpetrators

9 November 2024

9:00 AM

9 November 2024

9:00 AM

V13: Chronicle of a Trial Emmanuel Carrère

Fern Press, pp.320, 20

On Friday 13 November 2015 France suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. In quick succession, gunmen and suicide bombers struck the outer concourse of Paris’s Stade de France; then the pretty canal-side cafés and restaurants of the tenth arrondissement; then, most notoriously, the Bataclan theatre, where the doors were blocked and, over the course of an hour, 90 people massacred.

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