Video shows woman’s miraculous escape from gunman in Paris attacks
Surveillance footage from La Casa Nostra restaurant captures terrifying scene
By Dylan Stableford | Yahoo News
Watch at 0:35 when it jams and the lucky women diners escaped
Surveillance footage from inside La Casa Nostra restaurant, Nov. 13, 2015. (The Daily Mail)
It was a typically lively Friday night at La Casa Nostra restaurant in Paris. Men and women were eating and drinking at tables, both inside and out, on an unseasonably warm fall evening. Behind the bar, a pair of staffers were chatting away, laughing.
Then the glass began to shatter.
Video footage from three surveillance cameras — obtained by the Daily Mail and released Thursday — captured the terrifying moment a gunman outside the eatery opened fire in one of seven coordinated attacks that killed 129 people across Paris.
One of the closed-circuit videos shows panicked patrons and staffers ducking for cover as gunfire rips through the restaurant and glass rains down on tables inside. A woman who reportedly had been shot in the wrist runs inside, pulling out her cellphone and taking refuge behind the bar as one of the bartenders comforts her.
In another, a gunman can be seen standing over a woman who had ducked under a table outside, pointing his gun at her and appearing to squeeze the trigger.
But the gun, which appears to be a Kalashnikov, does not fire, and seconds later the unidentified woman stands up and runs away. The gunman then disappears from view, though a car — believed to be one used by the attackers — is seen parked by the curb.
The entire assault lasted less than a minute, but for those who were at the cafe on Friday night, their haunting memories will no doubt last much, much longer.
