As the crowd ran for their lives from a theatre sprayed with bullets, those left behind on the carpet of blood were either dead or injured. A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Friday night. Credit:AP "They were choosing the people who were still alive to execute them," said Mr Philonenko. According to Mr Philonenko there was a line of bodies lying on the floor and one of the black clad gunmen would kick every third person to see if they were still alive. "When they found somebody alive, they execute the person," he said.

As it dawned on Mr Philonenko that he was next, he spoke to his son lying next to him. Two girls embrace opposite the main entrance of Bataclan concert hall as French police lift the cordon following Fridays terrorist attacks. Credit:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images "I'm a dead man. It's over, d'accord? [OK?], but you don't move, you don't move, for me it is over." When the terrorist arrived he touched my leg, said Mr Philonenko. "He just pushed it to see if [I] resisted," he said,

"[If I had resisted], it means you are alive and he shoot you." Mr Philonenko said the terrorist tried one more time, but the stiffness of his leg meant the gunman thought he had joined the 89 other dead victims of the atrocity in the venue on Boulevard Voltaire. "From Saturday to now, I think I don't know why I am still alive, only from my legs." He said that he saw others grasping for help, as the gunman executed them one by one. "A woman called please help us, my husband, his blood is going on the floor."

"She was shot by the gunman." "I help nobody, I just walk, there were dead bodies around everywhere." Mr Philonenko's story of survival comes as countless others emerge, many with friends and family who did not make it out alive. "We lay [in the Bataclan] for maybe an hour and 15 minutes until the police actually entered the building," British man Michael O'Connor told the BBC.

"I could see the door behind us slowly open, I didn't know what was coming through. I saw torches and big flashlights. It was so eerie because you could just hear the amp in the background." "It was then that I could finally start to think we actually might survive this. He said the scene "looked like an abattoir, it looked like a slaughterhouse". "I was wading through blood - it was a centimetre deep in places - and climbing over dead bodies to get out." The death toll from the wave of attacks across Paris currently stands at 129, with 352 injured.