Guillame Decherf, a French music journalist, and Valentin Ribet, an anti-corruption lawyer, were named as some of the victims in the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday night that left more than 120 people dead.
Decherf was covering the Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan theater, were a hostage situation unfolded. Armed assailants reportedly killed more than 100 at the venue.
Decherf had just reviewed the Eagles’ most recent album, “Zipper Down,” reported Spin magazine.
According to a blog post about his death on Nov. 14:
This is the news that hits closest so home for far. Decherf was a writer since 2008 for Les Inrockuptibles, a French music and cultural magazine standby for thirty years, and had just reviewed the most recent Eagles of Death Metal album for them a couple of weeks ago. So unsurprisingly he went to the show. He was forty-three and had two daughters. I can’t know but given our closeness in age I suspect he and I could have chatted easily about all kinds of things. To place myself in his shoes is to ask too much, too selfishly, but to recognize the bitter resonant sadness is, I think, appropriate.
Other media reports say that Ribet, 26, was killed in the attacks. He was trained in the U.K., the Mirror reported.
His death was announced on the Twitter account of the London School of Economics.
It stated: “We have learned of some very sad news from our LSE alumni community, following the attacks in Paris.
