A mother sacrificed her life by using her body to shield her five-year-old son from the bullets when the terrorists burst into the Bataclan Concert Hall. Little Louis was found alive between the dead bodies of his mother and grandmother who were covered with blood. Louis and his family had been attending the Eagles of Death Metal concert when it was attacked by the terrorists.

Both,  Elsa Delplace (35) and Patricia San Martin (61) died while protecting their little boy from gunfire. Both were dead when they tried to protect Louis and Louis was found covered in blood and distraught. Elsa’s friend had shared few moments about her friend who sacrificed her life to her son.

In a tribute to Ms Delplace in Le Point magazine, her friend Sihem Souid wrote: “Elsa Delplace and her mother Patricia died on Friday under a hail of bullets inside the Bataclan. “Her son Louis, her ray of sunshine, was with her. Louis was found in Vincennes hospital, distraught and covered in his mother’s blood as she tried to protect him from the bullets.

“Elsa was a joyous person who always had a smile on her lips, even at difficult times. She was involved in the voluntary, cultural and artistic worlds. She played the cello brilliantly. She always fought against injustice. I think it was part of her family – her Chilean mother fled the dictatorship of Pinochet.”

According to the reports, 89 people died in the incident in the Bataclan theater on Friday. A further 40 people were killed in coordinated attacks across the city in several restaurants and outside the Stade de France football stadium.

In a Facebook post, French journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Helene Muyal-Leiris also died in the Bataclan attack, said, “you will not have my hatred. I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know, you are dead souls. If this God for whom you kill blindly made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife is a wound in his heart. So no, I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give into the same ignorance that made you what you are.”