Dramatic video emerges of terrifying firefight between french police and terrorist gunmen outside concert where more than 80 people were massacred in cold blood.
Bataclan concert hall floor plan.
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In 1864 a 1 500 seat café concert hall was built by architect charles duval named ba ta clan after a famous theatre musical play.
With dancing dinner and a floor show.
The attackers next stormed the bataclan concert hall which was hosting the american rock band eagles of death metal.
He then confirmed that his colleague had seen acts of torture on the second floor of the bataclan.
They opened fire on the panicked audience and took members hostage.
The attacks took place at the bataclan concert hall boulevard voltaire belle equipe bar rue fontaine au roi petit cambodge restaurant and le carillon bar.
But this was a flop and the theatre closed again and sat dark for six years.
When elite french commandos stormed the bataclan concert hall last friday night they found hundreds of people laying on the floor blood everywhere and an eerie silence.
Its original name was grand café chinois.
The french name bataclan refers to the offenbach operetta but it is also a pun on the expression tout le bataclan the kit and caboodle or all that jazz.
History origin and use.
This was followed by several mass shootings and a suicide bombing at cafés and restaurants.
Identifying the concert hall in advance as a target.
Like most friday nights especially those with a special event the bataclan nightclub and concert hall near paris s place de la république was heaving.
Shootout at the bataclan hall.
Beginning at 21 16 cet three suicide bombers struck outside the stade de france in saint denis during a football match.
A black volkswagen polo pulled up outside the bataclan concert hall at 21 40 20 40 gmt on friday 13 november and three heavily armed gunmen got out.