The interview has just ended. “I have to show you something,” Jesse Hughes told us. The singer of the Eagles Of Death Metal group pulled up his polo shirt, turned around and showed us his back. It is covered with a large black and white tattoo of the Paris coat of arms and motto, “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur”. “Beaten by the waves but not drowned”, which became the slogan of the resistance after the attack. “It was my girlfriend who tattooed my body with it,” he explained. All that’s left is to add color. »
Ten years after his concert at the Bataclan, the 53-year-old American rocker was in Paris to participate in a memorial service with his “brothers”. He was invited to sing this Thursday with Choir 13, made up of survivors and the Radio France “You’ll Never Walk Alone” choir, in the memory park. We met him a few hours earlier at his hotel. Tears flowed and emotions ran high.
