French artist Fred Dewilde committed suicide. In 2015, he survived the terrorist attack on the Bataclan music club. The information was brought by Le Point.
“We, his family, are shocked and devastated. The terrorist violence of November 13, 2015, is still spreading the poison that finally brought him down – after more than nine years of fierce resistance. They killed him a second time, without any chance of survival,” said the artist’s family. Fred Dewilde left behind three children.
“I was lucky to get out alive. I saw a crowd trample a young girl. I wanted to help her up, but she couldn’t. I stayed with her. We were lying in front of the stage. Next to the girl was a dead boy. At that moment I understood the seriousness of what was happening. I pretended to be dead for two hours to survive,” Dewilde told Radiozúrnál about his experiences of the attack.
The artist described his traumas from the attack in the comic book Mon Bataclan, which he published in 2016. According to the website iRozhlas, he painted hundreds of pictures and sketches from November 13, 2015, through which he got rid of the horrors he had experienced.
On November 13, 2015, terrorists in Paris attacked the Bataclan music club and other places in the French capital and its suburb of Saint-Denis. They killed a total of 130 people. Seven suicide bombers died in attacks claimed by the Islamic State terrorist organization. The only surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
