Bataclan victims 'castrated and had eyes gouged out by evil ISIS jihadis', says inquiry
THE French government stopped the press from reporting details of the gruesome torture of several of the Bataclan terror victims in the wake of the Paris attack, it has been claimed.
Some 130 people were killed in the attacks on November, including 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall, which saw suicide bombers and gunman strike in six locations across Paris.
The shocking torture happened as terrorists took a number of people watching an Eagles of Death Metal concert hostage.
A government committee heard from a leading investigator that police officers vomited after seeing a number of the victims disfigured bodies after ISIS killers reportedly gouged their eyes out and castrated some of them.
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The committee heard some of the male victims were castrated with their genitals put in their mouths.
Women were stabbed in the genitals and sexually tortured and others were disemboweled, the committee heard.
In a shocking transcript of the hearing, prosecutors have cast doubt on the claims saying no sharp knives were found at the scene.
Bodies have not been presented to the families because there were people beheaded, slaughtered people, people who have been eviscerated
But an officer named only as Mr TP Corporal claimed some victims were beheaded and others tortured as the ISIS killers filmed the sickening acts.
Mr TP Corporal told the committee: “After the assault, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw weeping from one of our colleagues who came outside to vomit. He told us what he had seen.”
The committee heard victims were tortured on the second floor as armedpolice stormed the concert hall.
Mr TP said: “Bodies have not been presented to the families because there were people beheaded, slaughtered people, people who have been eviscerated. There are women who have taken stabs at the genitals.
“While we fixed a terrorist to the emergency door, another was doing all these things upstairs.”
Committee chief President Georges Fenech said the authorities have given out conflicting information on whether victims were show or blown up.
He also complained that details of the torture had been kept from families and the press.
He revealed how one of the father of one victim only discovered his son had been tortured when he saw his body in the morgue.
Mr Fenech said: “Indeed, the Committee is troubled by this information which has appeared nowhere in the media.
“Thus, the father of one of the victims sent me a copy of a letter he sent to the investigating judge, which I quote in summary.
“On the causes of the death of my son A at the forensic institute in Paris, I was told, and what a shock it was for me at that moment, they had cut off his testicles, had put them in his mouth, and he was disemboweled.
For Bataclan massacre survivor, the show must go on
“When I saw him behind glass, lying on a table, a white shroud covering it up to the neck, a psychologist was with me. He said: This is “the only presentable part, your son’s left profile.”
“I found that he had no right eye. I made the remark; I was informed that they had punctured his eye and sliced down the right side of his face, where there was a very large hematoma that we could all see."
But despite the testimony prosecutors maintain no sharp knife that could have been used for torture was found at the scene.
He suggested shrapnel may have caused some of the mutilations.
The committee heard some bodies were so mutilated that the authorities struggled to reconstruct them.
Onvestigator Christian Saint said: “I specify, for the sake of clarity: some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies.
“In other words, injuries described by this father may also have been caused by automatic weapons, by explosions or projections of nails and bolts that have resulted.”
When asked if the weapons or explosions could account for a victim being found with genitals in his mouth, the prosecutor replied: “I do not have that information.”
Some 200 hours of testimony has been put before an investigative committee of the French National Assembly which has criticised a lack of co-ordination among European intelligence agencies which failed to prevent the massacre.
The parliamentary inquiry said France needs to set up a national counterterrorism agency that could be models on the US model.
Earlier this month, Mr Fenech said: “We are not up to the task (in the fight) against those who threaten us today.”
Eight of the November attack victims remain in hospital.
