Sunday 8 May 2022 11:35 AM Band that played Bataclan on night of Paris attacks will tell court of their ... trends now
France's worst terrorist attack took place on November 13, 2015, Eagles of Death Metal had sold out the Bataclan theatre and had just started their opening song 'Kiss the Devil' when three gunmen opened fire.
The Islamic extremists wore suicide vests and shot randomly into the crowd, killing 90.
This week, the band's frontman Jesse Hughes, 49, will give his version of events to a Paris court, including how he came face to face with one of the gunmen.
The band's former guitarist, Eden Galindo, 52, and Matt McJunkins, 39, who was playing bass that evening, will also give testimony in one of France's largest legal cases ever.
They are expected to talk about the horrifying events that occurred when jihadists stormed into the auditorium and the impact the traumatic event has had on their lives.
Members of the American rock group Eagles of Death Metal will give testimony to a French court about their experience on November 13, 2015, when the Bataclan concert hall they were performing in was attack by Islamic gunmen
Frontman Jesse Hughes (pictured: right, next to guitarist Dave Catching at a memorial in front of the Bataclan concert hall) will describe to the court how he came face to face with one of the terrorists this week
The band had not been on the stage for a long time (pictured) when the three gunmen opened fire on the crowd, which some confused for a speaker malfunction or pyrotechnics initially
The gunmen who stormed the Bataclan died in the attack, but there are 14 defendants at the trial.
However only one is accused of direct involvement - Salah Abdeslam, 31, who allegedly abandoned a suicide belt outside the Stade de France.
The rest are accused of lesser terrorism offences. The trial, which began in September, is expected to end late next month.
'I saw the looks on all those faces in front of me,' said former guitarist Galindo. '[The audience] didn't know what was happening, they couldn't see anything. They were being pushed against each other, and
