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3rd July 2016
11:53am BST

“I saw hundreds of people running in panic. People were trampling over each other trying to get out. “People were screaming, there were lots of people in tears and there were lots of women with only one shoe afterwards because they had been running like mad."Another onlooker, Ali Gourlay, said:
“I saw sheer panic. It was everyone for themselves. “There was no direction, no one knew what was happening. Everyone just ran. I thought I saw a firecracker.”Toby Smyth also told the paper:
“Suddenly I saw a wall of people running towards me and had no time to react to it. “It's scenes you see on the news but never think you'll be part of. It's a reflection of the fear that is here in Paris. Families scattered. “We helped a Canadian family in tears. There were 24 of them, their first day in France, who said they now wanted to fly home. I got pulled over a fence and lost my shoe in the stampede."