Video from a guy on scene just after it happened and ahead of emergency crews arrive.
thanks, guns!
This guy’s descriptions, in breathless, hyper emotional English, do not match what his very own video is showing, either in terms of the damage or of the reaction and behavior of the people on the scene. And the firetrucks and emergency vehicles, lights flashing, are visible at the scene before he gets there; he heads for the scene by following their lights. He walks down the block towards the fire, lingers a few moments taking his video, and turns around walks away (possibly because of the person or persons, a fire fighter?, yelling “A BAS!” repeatedly at him and other gawkers - in this context that would mean something like “GET BACK!”). The police do arrive after he has wandered down the block and back, and it looks like the first thing they do is try to move persons away from street with the fire and most of the broken windows.
Wow - thanks for the video. Such a beautiful city but the NE section has so many muslims, when I first saw the report I was worried. Most of the issues they have including car burnings are in the section NE of Sacre-Couere De Montmarte. So any problems in that area, the ferals are always something to consider.
I watched that livestream for a while. I like how he was so certain it was a terrorist attack, and how this was his first time.
It could have been a bomb, but an accidental gas explosion is more likely.