Bataclan victims’ families enraged as ‘voyeuristic’ investigators visit scene

The first police officers to the terrorist attack which left 89 people dead at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have returned to the venue. They joined French politicians during Thursday’s exercise which aims to shed some light on what happened. The organisers said their work would be done behind closed doors and they would observe a minute’s silence before going inside. However, the visit has been criticised as disrespectful and needlessly painful by some of the victims’ families, who called it voyeuristic.

The fact that these 30-plus lawmakers have come to see what happened at the Bataclan is disgraceful, and close to something we could call voyeurism.

Nadine Ribert-Reinhart, whose son Valentin was killed

About two dozen people were allowed in to the concert hall, which has remained closed since the massacre during an Eagles of Death Metal concert in November. But Georges Fenech, a judge and president of terrorism commission, was challenged before he went in Nadine Ribert-Reinhart, whose son, Valentin, died in the attack. She said: "Why do they need to come here to look at what happened, mobilise the RAID and the BRI, when we parents still don’t know at what time our children died? Or what kind of wounds they died of.“

We will, with them, see chronologically how they intervened and answer the questions that the investigation commission has, that all the victims, the families have, and all the French as well

Judge Georges Fenech

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