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Horrifying details about the gruesome 'torture' of victims inside the Bataclan during the Paris attacks in November were covered up by French authorities, it's claimed.

A leading investigator alleges that policemen witnessed victims with their eyes gouged out and some who had been castrated and left with their genitals in their mouths.

The testimony reportedly came from a chief police officer, allegedly suppressed from being released at the time, and heard by a government committee this week, according to Heat Street.

The 14-hour testimony claimed that ISIS terrorists disemboweled and decapitated some of the victims and stabbed some of the women in the genitals, the website reported.

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The inquiry heard that the terrorists had planned on footage of the alleged torture for ISIS propaganda, it's claimed.

The horrific injuries suffered by those 'tortured' in the attack was the reason that some of the bodies weren't released to their families, according to the site.

Prosecutors at the hearing into the 89 deaths at the theatre on November 13, last year, argued that the reports of torture were 'rumours', adding that sharp knives hadn't been found at the scene.

The investigator told the inquiry: "After the assault, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw weeping from one of our colleagues who came outside to vomit. He told us what he had seen."

He confirmed to the hearing that his colleague had seen 'acts of torture on the second floor' of the Bataclan, where band Eagles of Death Metal had been performing.

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The president of the committee, Georges Fenech, read a letter sent to him from a father of one of the victims.

It reportedly said that while visiting his son's body at the morgue, he was told that the right side of his face was unrecognisable because terrorists had "punctured his eye and sliced down the right side of his face."

But prosecutors said that the injuries described by the father could have been caused by "automatic weapons, explosions or projections of nails and bolts".

The concert hall was among several public places in the French capital, including the Stade de France, cafes and restaurants, which were targeted by a group of ISIS militants, who killed 130 people in total and left hundreds injured.

