Horrifying video shows carnage outside of Paris theater

Doug Stanglin | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption GRAPHIC CONTENT: People flee Paris' Bataclan concert venue Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny filmed the injured who tried to escape the Bataclan concert venue. (Editors note: USA TODAY does not regularly show graphic images, however the news value of this particular video outweighs such considerations.)

A video posted by Le Monde on Saturday shows a glimpse at the horrifying scene of dozens fleeing gunfire outside a concert hall in central Paris.

The video, shot from an apartment balcony, shows a steam of people racing down a passageway in the building to a side street.

At least one person is shown writhing on the ground as scores more stream past, some of them bloodied or limping. The camera pans down the street to reveal more fleeing people dragging two bodies along the ground, leaving a trail of blood.

A woman and two others can be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in a desperate attempt to stay out of the line of fire. Throughout the video gunshots can be heard and the sounds of terrified people attempting to flee the concert hall.

Le Monde said its reporter, Daniel Psenny, who filmed the scene from his apartment balcony, was shot in the arm after he stopped filming, when he went downstairs to help someone in the alley.

Psenny said he realized something was happening after he heard what sounded like firecrackers going off outside his window. He quickly realized that "something serious" was happening as he watched people run from the club.

"A woman was clinging to the Bataclan window on the second floor. I thought about the images of September 11th," Psenny told Le Monde.

The Islamic State's propaganda arm released statements in Arabic and French claiming responsibility for the attacks in Paris. It called the "blessed battle" an act of revenge for French involvement in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors and analyzes terrorist groups.

Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office, told the Associated Press early Saturday that eight terrorists died in the attacks, seven of them in suicide bombings. The eighth was killed by security forces when they raided the concert hall.