The poignant story of Maud Griezmann, the sister of Antoine Griezmann, on the tragic night of the attacks of November 13, 2015.
On November 13, 2015, France experienced one of the worst nights in its history. A series of terrorist attacks left 130 dead and nearly 400 injured in Paris and the Stade de France. At the Bataclan, an Eagles of Death Metal concert was one of the terrorists’ main targets. 90 people were killed and many others were injured.
Among the spectators present at the concert was Antoine Griezmann’s sister, Maud. The French team player was then playing against Germany at the Stade de France. When he heard the news of the attacks, the Mâconnais experienced hours of anguish. He spent hours trying to contact his sister, without success. “We had to wait, we had to pray”, he confided in the documentary “Griezmann confidential” broadcast on TMC.
Finally, Maud managed to make contact with her brother. She told him that she had been trapped in the Bataclan, but had managed to escape. “I was like, I’ll get out. I will come out alive. When I was inside, she said. I wasn’t thinking about my family or any one person in particular. It was for me, I’m going out. And when I left, the first thing I did was call my mother. »
Antoine Griezmann experienced a moment of immense relief. He was able to join his sister at the hospital, where she was under observation. “And for Antoine, it was apparently a big sigh of relief. My friend who was there told me that when she saw him arrive he was white from white, he was stressed,” she explained.
“We moved on”
The tragedy of November 13 forever marked France. She also left deep marks in the lives of Antoine Griezmann and his sister. “Antoine is a very modest person,” she admitted. He said to me: “There you go, this happened to you, I am aware of it, I know that you are a strong person, you will move forward. ”And there you have it, since that day we have never spoken about it again. Even with my parents, it’s not a subject that we really explored, discussed, blabbered, no no. We talked about it once, around the table, and we moved on. »
