The French government suppressed police testimony describing torture, including mutilation and disembowelment, during the November ISIS terror attacks at the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris, according to an exclusive report released by Heat Street on Friday.
Police who investigated the carnage told France’s Commission of Inquiry that ISIS terrorists disemboweled, beheaded, and castrated some victims, shoving the cut off testicles into their mouths. Militants also gouged out eyes and stabbed women in the genitals, authorities told the commission.
Survivors of the Nov. 13 attack that killed 130 people told police the terrorists had filmed the torture to use for ISIS propaganda.
The committee’s president Georges Fenech read a letter from a victim’s father who discovered his son had been mutilated during the attack when he visited the morgue.
"On the causes of the death of my son A., at the forensic institute in Paris, I was told ... they had cut off his testicles, had put them in his mouth, and he was disemboweled," Fenech said, reading from the letter.
"When I saw him behind glass, lying on a table, a white shroud covering it up to the neck, a psychologist was with me. He said: This is ‘the only presentable part, your son’s left profile.’ I found that he had no right eye. I made the remark; I was informed that they had punctured his eye and sliced down the right side of his face, where there was a very large hematoma that we could all see."
Police said officers who saw the dismembered bodies wept and vomited after stepping outside of the Bataclan.
The French government withheld the testimony and reports of torture from the public and media at the time.
Prosecutors called the police reports a "rumor," claiming that no sharp knives had been found in the Bataclan that could have been used to torture victims.
"Some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies," one prosecutor said. "In other words, injuries described [by] this father may also have been caused by automatic weapons, by explosions or projections of nails and bolts that have resulted."
Fenech retorted, "Would those have put a man’s balls in his own mouth?"