Ten Years After Bataclan, Who is Winning?

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On November 13, 2015, Muslim terrorists carried out a series of attacks in Paris. Bombs went off at the Stadium of France (Stade de France), and Muslims sprayed with bullets crowds at the Bataclan, a concert venue, as well as customers and staff at several restaurants and nightclubs, including Le Carillon, Le Petit Cambodge, La Belle Équipe, Café Bonne Bière, and La Casa Nostra. The attackers killed 130 victims and injured 416, with 80 to 99 taken to hospital in serious condition. Of the dead, 90 died at the Bataclan theatre, 21 at La Belle Équipe, 13 at Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge, five at Café Bonne Bière and La Casa Nostra, and one at Stade de France.

More on what has become known collectively as “the Bataclan attack,” and what has followed in the ten years since, can be found here: “Ten years later, the Bataclan terrorists are winning,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, November 14, 2025:

From the court records.

Stade de France:

“Against the stadium gate we find a bone. Pieces of human flesh, a hand. Then what could be an arm and shreds of meat. On Rue de l’Olympisme, a finger.”

Then the photo of Manuel Colaço Dias, the first victim of the attacks. His body had “eleven metal nuts, including one in the lung that caused death.”

Next stop: Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge, two restaurants in the city center.

“It’s not a crime scene, it’s a war zone.” Bodies on the sidewalk, too many to count, forming a “shapeless mass.” On some victims, the documents of others were found. “This kind of mistake happened because people fell on top of each other. The only thing you could hear were the victims’ phones ringing.” Hundreds of Kalashnikov casings. “We found 36 shots in one victim, 22 in another, 14 in a third.”

Finally: the Bataclan.

A sea of lifeless red blood. Ninety dead in thirty-two minutes. Seventy-one inside the Bataclan, forty-four of them at the foot of the stage. Others outside.

It’s 10:15 p.m. The Rapid Intervention Brigade (BRI) enters the Bataclan. “There were 500 or 600 people on the ground, no noise, only moans,” recalls Jay, staring blankly ahead. The stage lights were still on, flooding the room with a harsh white light. “The image was surreal. That was the first thing we saw.”

Then Kader: “It’s atrocious. It’s a mass grave. What I saw looked like a war scene. Like the ones you see on TV or in history books. I thought of the Holocaust… all those bodies piled one on top of another.”

And again: “shattered skulls,” “unrecognizable faces,” and “fragments of teeth and bones.”

Judicial police officer Patrick: “It was like the site of a plane crash. We were walking through coagulated blood, pieces of teeth, vibrating phones, handbags, backpacks. Bodies, bodies, bodies. Bodies entangled with one another.”

Photos show a bathroom where the ceiling had been smashed by people trying to escape upstairs. “The pit was the most gruesome area, the bloodiest, with 41 victims. Among them, unrecognizable faces, exploded teeth.”

In the restrooms near the pit, large streaks of blood showed that victims had tried to take refuge there. “The green-blue of the tiles had disappeared under red blood. A dark, cold atmosphere, with a white light that made everything look pale and gave it the feeling of a cathedral.”

Guillaume Valette never regained inner peace. A Bataclan survivor, he hanged himself in his room at the psychiatric clinic where he was being treated. He was 31.

Like Fred Dewilde, a doctor and illustrator who didn’t have time to flee – and nine years later, took his own life.

Today marks ten years since that watershed event in Western history. Every generation, in its own way, inherits a trauma. The Bataclan is the trauma of Europeans who understood.

And ten years later, who is winning?

There have been close to 50,000 attacks by Muslim terrorists since September 11, 2001. Such terrorism is becoming normalized. The Western world has not risen up in fury, has not dared to deport more than a handful of Muslims from its midst, but instead treats Muslim terrorism as a police matter, and keeps allowing more Muslim migrants, by the millions, to enter Europe and to settle deep behind the borders of what they regard as enemy — Infidel — territory. There are now close to 50 million Muslims living in Europe, where their large presence has led to a situation for the indigenous non-Muslims that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous, than would be the case without that large presence.