{Tickets sell out in less than 30 minutes for charity concert as nation commemorates anniversary of the bloody attacks.}<\/p>\n
British singer Sting reopened the Bataclan – the revered Paris concert hall – with a charity concert marking the first anniversary of the bloody attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.<\/p>\n
Many survivors of the Bataclan assault, where some 90 people were killed, attended the concert on Saturday, the dominant event in a weekend of otherwise low-key commemorations.<\/p>\n
The coordinated suicide bomb and gun attacks in various parts of Paris on November 13 last year also targeted bars, restaurants, and a sports stadium.<\/p>\n
“We will not forget them,” the British rock star Sting told the crowd in French after a minute’s silence. He began the emotionally charged concert with his song “Fragile”, singing: “Nothing comes from violence and nothing will.”<\/p>\n
The Eagles of Death Metal, a rock band from the United States, was playing on stage when the legendary Bataclan concert hall was raided.<\/p>\n
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the bloodbath – the worst of its kind in the history of France.<\/p>\n
A year later, nine people out of the 400 wounded in the rampage are still in hospital.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Amghar, a survivour of the Paris attacks, told Al Jazeera he could not understand what made the young Muslim men want to kill others.<\/p>\n
“Killing yourself is against our religion. Killing in the name of God is against Islam. I don’t think we read the same book [with these attackers], because Quran is all about love. Killing others to go to paradise has no place in our religion,” Amghar said.<\/p>\n
He worked as a security guard at the Stade de France, where a suicide bomber blew himself up after Amghar refused to let the attacker inside the stadium.<\/p>\n
Sold out in minutes<\/p>\n
The Bataclan said all 1,000 Sting tickets sold out in less than 30 minutes for the concert hall that has a 1,500-person capacity. <\/p>\n
The families of those who died and survivors in the Bataclan were given tickets by organisers. Psychologists and counselors will be on hand to offer support.<\/p>\n
While reopening the doors will mean reliving painful memories for many, Jules Frutos, who has co-run the venue for the last 12 years, told AFP news agency, “We had to go on after such horror and not leave a mausoleum, a tomb.”<\/p>\n
On Sunday, President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will unveil plaques to the victims outside the stadium, the Bataclan, and bars and restaurants targeted that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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