Paris attacks: Witness describes gunman as a "random guy holding a Kalashnikov"
Julien Pearce, a radio journalist from Europe 1 radio, was inside the concert hall when the shooting began.
Terrified survivors from the Paris concert hall targeted in a series of attacks on the French capital have described fleeing over bodies to hide after gunmen began executing rock fans in a barrage of automatic gunfire. At least 82 people were killed in the concert hall by four black-clad attackers who opened fire with automatic weapons on the packed venue, sowing carnage and panic.
Julien Pearce, a radio journalist from Europe 1 radio, was inside the concert hall when the shooting began.
In an eyewitness report posted on the station's website, Pearce said several very young individuals, who were not wearing masks, entered the hall during the concert, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and started "blindly shooting at the crowd".
He said that the shooting lasted for about fifteen minutes...the attackers had a lot of time to reload their guns. He added that the attackers were very young. When he was escaping the scene, he reportedly saw a "dozen corpses on the ground lying in a pool of blood".
Speaking to CNN, Pearce said that the gunman looked like a "random guy holding a Kalashnikov."
"It was a bloodbath. People yelled, screamed. It lasted for 10 minutes. Ten horrific minutes where everybody was on the floor covering their head," he tells CNN