American survivor of Paris terror attack speaks out after emotional testimony: “I wasn’t going to leave him there on his own,' Helen Wilson told NBCNews. 'Why should I let him die?”
Wearing a T-Shirt bearing the words “Love Always Wins,” Wilson, 55, had just told the court about the night of Nov. 13, 2015.gunmen stormed the French capital's Bataclan theater“I wasn't going to let him go,” she told NBC News shortly after leaving the witness stand. “I wasn’t going to leave him there on his own.
Nineteen other defendants are being tried in connection with the attacks, which also left hundreds injured.Wilson, said she wanted Abdeslam to acknowledge what he did and admit “he made a lot of bad decisions and he’s sorry that he hurt so many people that didn’t deserve it.”At one point however, Wilson who was left with nerve damage and chronic pain after bullets from the AK-47s tore away muscle tissue in her legs, said she felt like the defendants “were listening to what I had to say.
He told NBC News on Tuesday that he wanted to testify to tell the defendants that their view of Islam was wrong. “His Islam is another Islam,” he said. “It’s not my Islam.”He added that he thought Abdeslam had maybe been brainwashed. “I don’t believe we go to paradise by killing people,” he said.More than 300 survivors and members of victims families will testify at the trial, each given 20 minutes to tell the court about the night that changed their lives.
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