“It was a war scene”: Zazie gives a moving testimony about the attacks of November 13, 2015

Eleven years later, the attacks of November 13 continue to haunt Zazie. On October 10, at the microphone of France Inter, the singer delivered a new chilling testimony on this dark evening in her life and the families of the 132 victims shot by terrorists in Paris and Saint-Denis.

Only “15-20 seconds after the damage from the machine guns”, the interpreter of Je suis un homme arrived on a scooter with her daughter in front of Bonne Bière, a brasserie in the 11th arrondissement of the capital. One of the main locations of the drama.

“That moment was a war scene, it was a scene that we have never experienced,” she declares. For a split second, my first instinct was to put my scooter down to help the victims, since I have my first aid certificate. »

It was her daughter, Lola, a thirteen-year-old girl, who had to bring her back to her senses. The young child asked her if she really saw pools of blood coming from the terraces.

“Mom, is that wine or…?” “, she told him, looking worried, without finishing her sentence. “I took too long to answer him, too long,” remembers Zazie. Everything stopped. I told him “I don’t think so”. She was on the verge of passing out and so we ran away. We didn't know where the terrorists were. I knew that what was happening was absolutely not normal. »

“Protect Lola”

The singer says she suffered a second shock when she returned home. Her daughter was “pale, she was cold”.

“I turned on the television, very quickly, very poorly, to find out what was happening,” continues the artist. I called relatives, my daughter too, to tell them not to leave their homes. They didn't believe us. That day, my stomach spoke to me. And he told me to protect Lola. She was only able to go back to sleep when she saw the images to ensure that she had not dreamed of this nightmare. »