Hundreds of Paris citizens queue to give blood to wounded after terror attacks

Websites for donor organisations went down on Saturday morning

As medics treated 60 victims of Friday’s killing spree in northeast Paris, the queue to give blood at the George-Pompidou hospital where they were taken grew to up to a hundred within an hour of its blood centre opening. The websites for the donor organisations Établissement Français du Sang and Dondusang Paris were down on Saturday morning after a surge in traffic but that didn’t stop scores of Parisians – students as well as parents with their children – lining up to help.

Aurélie Moine, 23, told The Independent: "These places where the attacks happened are the kind of places I go to and I wanted to help in any way I could."

Armelle Partiot, 48, lives near the hospital and said she heard the ambulances arriving. "It was then that I decided to come down here to give my blood", she said. "It’s amazing to see so many people here"”.

These places where the attacks happened are the kind of places I go to and I wanted to help in any way I could

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A doctor who was on a business trip from Belgium, Peter Baines, 40, said after watching the news he travelled to the first hospital he could find – "I was urgently wanting to give blood. And it seems Parisians had the same idea."

Of the 60 patients being treated for gun wounds, 20 are said to be in a critical condition.