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Victims of Paris Attacks Among France's Best Hopes for Future

  • Attacks claimed 129 lives, left more than 300 people injured
  • Most died at Le Bataclan concert hall at the heart of the city
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Parisians: Heartbroken But Defiant as Europe on Alert

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They were lawyers, engineers, journalists, corporate executives. If they hadn’t been fans of a California band called The Eagles of Death Metal, they would still be alive.

The victims of Friday’s Le Bataclan concert hall attacks in Paris embodied some of France’s best hopes for its future. As details become available about the more than 89 people killed there, a profile is emerging: mostly well-educated, accomplished people in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s.