It is while preparing the subjects for the river trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 that Gaële Joly exchanges with Nicolas Poirot from Samu, on duty that evening. They had already met, Gaële being one of the franceinfo reporters posted in front of the Bataclan that night. And in the conversation, the reporter learns that the doctor has 13 hours of recordings. Incoming and outgoing calls from the Samu switchboard.
And these soundtracks, Nicolas Poirot uses them for training purposes with rescuers and nursing staff. But why not go further and free them from the computer where they are held to entrust them to the collective memory? Then the doctor makes a copy which he entrusts to postpone it. The soundtracks go from one utility to another.
She feels the astonishment all around, so much the emotional force relives with these audio documents. But the journalist for the needs of a diffusion must order and build the architecture of a report and avoid the first trap, voyeurism and sensationalism. What is terrible about listening to these documents is that the recording is triggered at the time of the call. So we hear the music asking to be patient, but especially the voices on the other end of the phone.
There are sequences that cannot be changed, inaudible by the violence of the situation. For example, Gaële dismisses the voice of this man talking to his dying wife, telling her that help will arrive soon. The horror that we have known live, such a report does not need six years later. On the other hand, the organization of help, the staffs, the confusion between the appeals of the victims, the efforts of each other to do the best in an emergency, constitute the heart of this report.
A writing that is almost – dare we say it – surgical, to be set back and not add heaviness to heaviness. This report, presented at the Radio France Prize, which rewards each year the work of a reporter from a Radio France editorial team, touched the jury which also awarded a special mention to Marion Aquilina, Sandrine Morin and Jeanne Marie Marco from France Bleu Occitanie. for their series My AZF, Histoires de Toulousains.
The night of November 13 by calls from Samu de Gaële Joly appealed to the jury with its strength, cohesion, informative value and narrative code made up of accuracy and distance. This report will represent Radio France at the Prix des Médias Francophones Publics on December 5th. An international jury of around 100 Canadian, Swiss, Belgian and French listeners will choose the winner. To be a juror, you have until November 30 to apply here.