Paris attacks: nurse discovers man he tried to save was bomberSaturday 21 November 2015 02.40 GMT
When he tore open the man’s T-shirt, David quickly realised what he thought was a gas explosion at the cafe close to the Bataclan, was something far worse
In the chaos of the explosion at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe, one of several targets hit in the Paris attacks, nurse David instinctively sought to help the wounded.
Among them was a man lying amid overturned chairs and tables. David, who asked to be called just by his first name, lay him down. The man did not look to have massive injuries but appeared unconscious, so David began CPR, the cardiopulmonary resuscitation he’d been trained for.
When he tore open the man’s T-shirt, David quickly realised what he initially thought was a gas explosion at the cafe close to the Bataclan music hall where gunmen killed 89, was actually something far worse.
“There were wires; one white, one black, one red and one orange. Four different colours,” he said. “I knew then he was a suicide bomber.“
The man David was trying to resuscitate was Brahim Abdeslam, one of those involved in a series of deadly attacks that killed 130 people at bars, restaurants, a football stadium and a music hall. No one other than Abdeslam died at the cafe.
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David says police told him Abdeslam’s bomb had not fully exploded.
“[Later] I was thinking about how I lay him on the floor, with me doing CPR. It’s a pretty vigourous process. By just doing that, I also could have been gone,” he said.
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