Eagles Of Death Metal perform in Paris for attack survivors

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>California rock band Eagles Of Death Metal have performed at a highly charged Paris concert filled with fans who survived an attack at their last Paris show &&num;8211&semi; and filled with memories of those who did not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Bonsoir Paris&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re ready for this&excl;&&num;8221&semi;&comma; frontman Jesse Hughes told the crowd at the Olympia concert hall before heading straight into their first song&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later&comma; between two songs&comma; he added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Peace&comma; Love and Rock and Roll&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The band&&num;8217&semi;s performance at the Bataclan concert hall on November 13 turned into a bloodbath when Islamic extremist suicide bombers stormed in&comma; as near-simultaneous attacks hit cafes and a stadium around Paris&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scores of concert-goers at the Bataclan were killed&comma; while others hid or lay motionless for hours until a police raid ended the siege&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Armed police guarded entrances to the Olympia for Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s performance&comma; and concert-goers went through three bag and body searches before entering&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Viewers seemed in good spirits ahead of the show&comma; some drinking outside&comma; and little nervousness in the crowd&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One survivor&comma; Alexis Lebrun&comma; described himself as &&num;8220&semi;very scared&&num;8221&semi; and said he would go to the Olympia venue but would only attend the concert if he deemed the security adequate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He and other survivors opened up to a French terrorism commission ahead of the concert&comma; questioning how the French government failed to stop the attacks that claimed 130 lives&comma; most of them at the Bataclan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The violence came just 10 months after deadly jihadi attacks on a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket pushed the country into high alert&comma; and forced French MPs to look for ways to further protect citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Lebrun questioned why there was scant security around one of Paris&&num;8217&semi; biggest music venues given the heightened alert in the city&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;No security measures were seen&period; No military or police presence in front of the hall&period; No particular searches at the hall entrance&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Lebrun noted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;How come the national security alert was at its highest level&comma; 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