On Friday the 13th of November, 2015, a series of six coordinated terrorist attacks struck Paris.
Last fall, I wrote about them on the tenth anniversary of that hideous evening.
🔴 Novembre 2015 : Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Brahim et Salah Abdeslam, et 7 autres terroristes font 130 morts et plus de 400 blessés dans des attaques à l’arme de guerre et aux explosifs contre des terrasses et le Bataclan à Paris.
Attaque la plus meurtrière en métropole depuis 1944 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/HxmgHmyxXD— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) November 13, 2024
November 2015: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Brahim and Salah Abdeslam, and 7 other terrorists kill 130 people and injure more than 400 in attacks using war weapons and explosives against terraces and the Bataclan in Paris. Deadliest attack in metropolitan France since 1944
They were all the work of the Islamic State.
The deadliest attack of those ghastly assaults happened at the Bataclan nightclub, which was filled to the brim with revelers for an ‘Eagles of Death Metal‘ concert, an American band.
Ninety people were killed in the club, with over 130 dead altogether as a result of the terrorist rampage across the city.
…Before that, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France where a football international was under way. Then others in the gang opened fire with Kalashnikovs on people drinking in bars and cafés not far from the Bataclan.
There, a performance by American group The Eagles of Death Metal had just started, when three jihadists burst in and fired indiscriminately into the auditorium. They took hostages and then blew themselves up as police moved in.
Overall 130 people were killed, 90 in the Bataclan, and more than 400 treated in hospital. Countless others suffered psychological trauma.
The word Bataclan has since become a byword in France for extreme Islamist attacks, in much the same way that 9/11 did in the US.
It would take seven years for the trials. They would take five weeks.
…The investigation took six years and its written conclusions stretch to 53 metres (174 feet) when lined up. Hearings lasted more than nine months, accommodated in a specially-built courtroom inside the 13th-century Palais de Justice in central Paris, a soothing wood-framed construction with chairs and benches for almost 600 people.
…During five long weeks, survivors and relatives of the dead delivered harrowing testimonies, some unbearably poignant. Around 450 plaintiffs – roughly a quarter of those registered for the trial – took the stand to recount their ordeals, sometimes gasping for air, their voices trembling, their faces drenched in tears.
…Inevitably, Covid took its toll on the proceedings, causing multiple absences and delays. The defendants, clustered together in a single box, were particularly affected – six of them catching the virus in rapid succession. So did one of the three main prosecutors, who was forced to follow key interrogations from home. Covid-induced interruptions account for the month-long delay in the verdict, which was initially due on May 25.
As agonizing as the testimony and evidence were, the worst of what happened at the Bataclan was later found to have been suppressed by the French government. The true horror of what the terrorists did to the human beings in that nightclub was never entered into evidence.
The French government suppressed police testimony describing torture, including mutilation and disembowelment, during the November ISIS terror attacks at the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris, according to an exclusive report released by Heat Street on Friday.
Police who investigated the carnage told France’s Commission of Inquiry that ISIS terrorists disemboweled, beheaded, and castrated some victims, shoving the cut off testicles into their mouths. Militants also gouged out eyes and stabbed women in the genitals, authorities told the commission.
Survivors of the Nov. 13 attack that killed 130 people told police the terrorists had filmed the torture to use for ISIS propaganda.
…”On the causes of the death of my son A., at the forensic institute in Paris, I was told … they had cut off his testicles, had put them in his mouth, and he was disemboweled,” Fenech said, reading from the letter.
“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.”
Police said officers who saw the dismembered bodies wept and vomited after stepping outside of the Bataclan.
The French government withheld the testimony and reports of torture from the public and media at the time.
A French policeman sobs after witnessing the medieval horrors inside The Bataclan, 2015. 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/hiN8tOQDSE
— Suffragent (@Suffragent_) November 13, 2025
During the trial, the man who planned the logistics for the Paris attacks and another planned for the next day in Amsterdam, Mohamed Bakkali, and two of his fellow accused, stopped talking.
…When the trial finally delved into the heart of the matter, three of the accused – Osama Krayem, Sofien Ayari and Mohamed Bakkali – abruptly stopped answering questions. Their stubborn silence ended all hopes of shedding light on the “key logistical role” attributed to Bakkali in the planning of the Paris attacks and the alleged plot to attack Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport the same day, for which Krayem and Ayari stand accused.
“I fought hard and I was harshly sentenced for something I didn’t do. I no longer have the strength,” Bakkali, who was jailed for 25 years over the botched attack on a Thalys train bound for Paris in the summer of 2015, told the court. “For people like me, being hopeful is dangerous,” added Ayari, explaining his decision to go mute.
Bakkali would be sentenced to thirty years for his role as the logistics mastermind. It doesn’t seem long enough.
- Mohamed Bakkali, a Belgian-Moroccan coordinator, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for playing a “key role in the logistics of the attacks”. He was accused of renting hideouts in Brussels to house the attackers.
After being convicted in the French trials, he was transferred to a Belgian prison because of his citizenship and the fact that he was first arrested there.
It turns out, it wasn’t long enough, but it was too long for the Belgians.
Mohamed Bakkali, the logistical brain behind the Paris and Bataclan attacks that killed 129 and wounded hundreds more, is allowed penitentiary leave by the Brussels court.
If Bakkali continues his “calm and good behaviour” according to the court, he could soon be freed… pic.twitter.com/EGhBQZ1wb0
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 20, 2026
Bakkali has been on his good behavior…
…Prior to this, he received 25 years for his role in the foiled Thalys train attack in August 2015, when a heavily armed gunman boarding the high-speed service from Amsterdam to Paris was overpowered by passengers.
He rented safe houses in Belgium for the terror cell and provided logistical support. The same network was later behind the March 22, 2016 Brussels bombings at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, which killed 32 people and wounded more than 300.
The French authorities decided to merge his sentences to the maximum of 30 years, Belgian news agency Belga reported.
… and that’s good enough even though the public prosecutor there opposed the release.
A Brussels court has granted Mohamed Bakkali, one of the terrorists involved in the 2015 Paris attacks, temporary release from prison. Bakkali is now permitted to leave his cell a total of six times for up to 36 hours each time, according to the Belgian media outlet “La Libre.” The judiciary justified the decision by citing Bakkali’s good behavior; the public prosecutor’s office had explicitly opposed it. According to “La Libre,” the prosecutor’s office was not given the opportunity to appeal Bakkali’s release.
The terrorist had already been granted a total of five furloughs since July of last year.
…Following his conviction in France, Bakkali was transferred to Belgium because he was arrested there and also holds Belgian citizenship. This has the advantage for him that in Belgium, he can apply for temporary release after serving only one-third of his sentence, whereas in France, this is only possible after two-thirds. Bakkali is expected to be released from prison in 2040.
Oh, he seems so nice. No worries.
…The same court said Bakkali had taken sufficient steps to find work and accommodation and had behaved “calmly and respectfully” in prison.
He has also already met with some of the victims, which, according to them, indicates his desire to rebuild his ties with society.
The Sentence Enforcement Court reportedly sees no reason to fear that he would harass the victims.
…In a reaction to Brussels Signal, N-VA MP Sophie De Wit said it was “difficult to comprehend” that Bakkali is set to be granted prison leave as early as 2026, despite a negative recommendation from the public prosecutor’s office. N-VA is the senior partner in the federal coalition led by Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
“Cases of this calibre are not about the standard enforcement of sentences, but about a very concrete assessment of the risk to society. When the public prosecutor’s office itself issues a negative recommendation, serious alarm bells should certainly be ringing.
VURT DA FURK?!
…Vlaams Belang MP Alexander Van Hoecke, from the opposition in the Belgian federal parliament, said it was “completely incomprehensible and outrageous, especially given the negative advice from the Brussels public prosecutor’s office”.
“This concerns a terrorist and a mass murderer. If the justice system cannot manage to punish someone like this in the harshest possible way and permanently remove him from our society, what trust can we still have in justice and the government? Who is going to explain this to the victims? The fact that this is even possible is a gap in the legislation that must be closed.”
Belgian judges, ‘No worries.‘
To remind everyone what really happened that night:
• They cut off testicles and shoved them into the victims’s mouths.
• They stabbed pregnant women in the womb and raped them.
• They beheaded people.
• They gouged people’s eyes out.French authorities worked overtime to… https://t.co/KFAKOsdDFI pic.twitter.com/jGU5tXfMS1
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 21, 2026
…French authorities worked overtime to keep these details away from the public.
And apparently, the mastermind behind this atrocity will soon walk, because European leaders are cowards and traitors who will never do the right thing.
What’s an eyeball or two?
Besides, he seems nice.
