That night, in another part of Paris, Meersseman’s partner of six months, Emma Archer, a university lecturer who works for a think tank, was frantically following the news as the attacks unfolded. (Ferre, now marketing director for Awal, a music digital-strategy and distribution company, declined to comment.) “We laughed about that nervously for two minutes through the pain,” Meersseman says. “They shot me through the heart, I’m going to die!” Ferre responded, he says: “You idiot! You got shot on the right side, not on the left side!” As Meersseman laid bleeding on the floor, he repeatedly cried out. Security Missed Chances to Stop Bombing at Ariana Grande Manchester Concert, Inquiry Findsįerre stayed with him. Is that clear or do you want an example?’ Those words will stay in my head forever.”) (A survivor testified in October during the trial: “The gunman then told us: ‘The first person who moves, or doesn’t do what I say, gets shot in the head. Because he was sitting on the club’s outdoor terrace, located next to the concert hall, he missed the carnage taking place inside.
He doesn’t remember all the details, although he has worked with two psychologists to reconstruct his memories of that night. Meersseman may have been among the first people shot at the Bataclan. “My first instinct was to dive to the floor,” Meersseman says. Caught In The Crossfireĭays after that traumatic Friday the 13th in 2015, Meersseman would wonder if biker gangs had somehow gone to war, right there in the club, with him in the crossfire. His dog Saturnin roamed in the background. In his first lengthy interview since the attacks, Meersseman, 40, spoke to Billboard for an hour in his fourth-floor AEG office, which overlooks cafes and shops on Boulevard des Italiens.
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