These People Attended The Re-Opening Of The Bataclan A Year After The Paris Attacks

Patrick Pelloux, a physician who used to write for Charlie Hebdo and treated the magazine's staff after the Jan. 7, 2015 attacks on their office, was at the Bataclan on Saturday to lend a hand to the security teams.

Hughes and his band the Eagles of Death Metal were playing at the Bataclan on the evening of Nov. 13, 2015, when terrorists attacked the concert hall.

Hughes said he wanted to visit the Bataclan on Saturday night "to not miss the re-opening."

One report indicated the Eagles of Death Metal had been barred from attending Sting's set, but the band's manager denied this in a statement to Billboard, saying Hughes did not try to enter the venue.

Speaking to BuzzFeed News outside the Bataclan, Hughes indicated it was "too hard" for him to go inside the theater, but that he had come to "see it in real life."