A Chilean mother and her daughter, cut down in a concert hall while the daughter’s five-year-old son survived; a young Italian woman, separated from her boyfriend and friends when the concert erupted in chaos.
They were among the latest victims named as officials continued the heavy task of identifying the 129 people killed in Friday night’s co-ordinated terrorist attacks in Paris.
Among the confirmed dead are:
:: Nick Alexander, 36, of Colchester,
Who was working at the Bataclan concert hall selling merchandise for the performing band, Eagles of Death Metal. “Nick was not just our brother, son and uncle, he was everyone’s best friend – generous, funny and fiercely loyal,” his family said in a statement. “Nick died doing the job he loved and we take great comfort in knowing how much he was cherished by his friends around the world“
:: Thomas Ayad, 32,
A producer manager for Mercury Music Group and a music buff who was killed at the Bataclan. In his hometown, Amiens, he was an avid follower of the local hockey team. Lucian Grainge – the chairman of Universal Music Group, which owns Mercury Music – said the loss was “an unspeakably appalling tragedy” in a note to employees provided to the Los Angeles Times
:: Guillame Decherf, 43,
A writer who covered rock music for the French culture magazine Les Inrocks. He was at the Eagles of Death Metal concert, having written two weeks earlier about the band’s latest album. He had two daughters
:: Nohemi Gonzalez, 23,
A senior at California State University, Long Beach. The university said Gonzalez, from El Monte, California, was attending Strate College of Design in Paris during a semester abroad. She was in the Petit Cambodge restaurant with another Long Beach State student when she was shot, Cal State officials said in a news conference. A spokesman described Ms Gonzalez as buoyant and extremely energetic. The university was notified of her death by French school officials and confirmed the death with her parents. Ms Gonzales lived in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte
:: Alberto Gonzalez Garrido, 29, of Madrid,
Who was at the Bataclan concert. The Spanish state broadcaster TVE said he was an engineer living in France with his wife, also an engineer. They were both at the concert, but became separated amid the mayhem
:: Mathieu Hoche, 38,
A technician at France24 news channel, also killed at the concert. A friend, Antoine Rousseay, tweeted about how passionately Mr Hoche loved rock ’n’ roll
:: Djamila Houd, 41, of Paris,
Originally from the town of Dreux, south west of the capital. The newspaper serving Dreux – L’Echo Republicain – said Ms Houd was killed at a cafe on the rue de Charrone in Paris. According to Facebook posts from grieving friends, she worked for Isabel Marant, a prestigious Paris-based fashion house
:: Valentin Ribet, 26,
A lawyer with the Paris office of the international law firm Hogan Lovell, who was killed in the Bataclan. Mr Ribet received a master of laws degree from London School of Economics in 2014, and earlier did postgraduate work at the Sorbonne university in Paris. His law firm said he worked on the litigation team, specialising in white collar crime. “He was a talented lawyer, extremely well liked, and a wonderful personality in the office,” the firm said
:: Patricia San Martin Nunez, 61, A Chilean exile, and her daughter, Elsa Veronique Delplace San Martin, 35.
They were attending the concert at the Bataclan with Elsa’s five-year-old son, who Chilean officials say survived. Ms San Martin Nunez had been exiled from Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and her daughter was born in France.
Chile’s foreign ministry described them as the niece and grandniece of Chile’s ambassador to Mexico, Ricardo Nunez. “They were taken hostage, and so far we know they were killed in a cold and brutal manner,” Mr Nunez told Radio Cooperativa. He said two people with them escaped alive
:: Valeria Solesin, 28, an Italian-born doctoral student at the Sorbonne.
She had lived in Paris for several years and had gone to the concert at the Bataclan with her boyfriend. They lost track of each other as they tried to escape, and he and friends searched hospitals in hopes of finding her among the wounded when her name did not immediately appear on the list of the dead. Her mother, Luciana Milani, described her daughter as a “wonderful person”. She told reporters in Venice: “We will miss her very much, and she will be missed, I can also say, by our country. People like this are important.”
Ms Solesin had been working at the Sorbonne as a researcher while completing her doctorate. While at university in Italy, she worked as a volunteer for the Italian humanitarian aid group Emergency. “It is tragic that a person so young, who is trying to understand the world and to be a help, find herself involved in such a terrible event,” said Emergency’s regional co-ordinator in Trento, Fabrizio Tosini
:: Luis Felipe Zschoche Valle, 33,
A Chilean-born resident of Paris. Chile’s foreign ministry said he had lived in Paris for eight years with his French wife and was killed at the Bataclan, where he had gone with his wife. He was a musician and member of the rock group Captain Americano
:: Not named
Some governments announced that their citizens had been killed without giving names. Germany’s foreign ministry said a German man was killed. The Paris correspondent for German public broadcaster ARD, Mathias Werth, wrote on Twitter that the man had been sitting on the terrace of a cafe when he was killed.
Sweden’s prime minister Stefan Lofven said a Swedish citizen was killed, and Mexico’s government said two of its citizens, both women, were killed. It said one had dual Mexican-US citizenship, and the other held Mexican-Spanish citizenship.