It sent shrapnel flying towards him, but his phone took most of the hit.
He said he was talking to a friend as he was walking: “After he hung up, I was crossing the street and straight away, boom, it exploded right in front of me. Everything was blown to bits and I felt stuff flying around, I fell and then I got back up.”
He showed the cell phone that took the hit saying “it’s what saved me. Otherwise my head would have been blown to bits”.
Officials say several people died in the two suicide bomb explosions outside the stadium, where French President Francois Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching a friendly football match. The Friday night bombing was one of five coordinated attacks over the course of a few hours in Paris. At least 120 people are dead, and some 200 others were injured.
Hollande has said the government’s aware of where the attacks came from, and has declared a national state of emergency.
