Director of Bataclan terror attack drama rejects accusations of ‘indecency’

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade defends decision to film mini-series inside Paris theatre where 130 people died in 2016

The Oscar-winning director of a TV mini-series about survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris has rejected accusations his decision to film inside the theatre was indecent".

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said the hostages on whose story the eight-part docudrama was based wanted their terrifying ordeal recreated inside the building and to film it elsewhere would have been trickery".