We don’t hate you,” Zoe Alexander told the men on trial for the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Her brother Nick, 35, was the only British national killed when gunmen stormed the Bataclan Theatre in Paris during a rock concert, as part of a series of coordinated attacks in the capital . He was the merchandise manager for the California-formed band Eagles of Death Metal, who were playing to a sold-out crowd when the ambush took place.
Zoe’s words made headlines at the time, a remarkable display of grace and forgiveness amid the horror of such an atrocity. Marking the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, she tells The Independent why letting hate win would have felt like a “disservice” to her brother, whom she remembers as being in “a great place in his life, doing what he loved”.
