Paris terror attacks: Hobart teen Emma Parkinson shot while making escape from concert hall

NEW details have emerged of how Hobart teen Emma Parkinson was shot as she tried to escape from the Paris terror attacks, while Qantas offers to help her return to Australia.

NEW details have emerged of the moment Tasmanian teenager Emma Parkinson was shot in the terror attacks in Paris at the weekend.

Emma was at the Bataclan concert hall watching a band with friends when the gunmen wearing their bomb vests burst through the doors and began firing.

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Australian ambassador Stephen Brady, who was by Emma’s side when she woke from surgery yesterday, revealed she had survived the first spray of bullets by dropping to the ground but in a lull in the shooting she jumped up to make an escape and was shot in the hip.

Mr Brady said she remembered very little of the incident and certainly was unaware of the extent of the terrorist attacks in the hall and at other sites across the city.

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The bullet passed through her but doctors were keen to clean the wound fully.

As Emma woke from the anesthetic after surgery, the first thing that greeted her was Mr Brady with a telephone in hand and her mum on the other end of the line

Mr Brady has revealed how at the behest of the 19-year-old’s family he was at her bedside keeping a vigil until she woke from the anaesthetic and could hear the voices of loved ones on the other side of the world.

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Emma Parkinson was at the concert hall when the terrorists struck. Picture: FACEBOOK

The ambassador brought her up to speed with some details but then handed the phone over and excused himself from the room.

“It was something I could do under the circumstances — a 19-year-old Tasmanian goes out on a Friday night expecting to have a fun night and ends up in a French hospital with a bullet wound and the nightmare of what she had to see,” Mr Brady told News Corp.

“The mother told me she had been unable to get hold of her daughter and there was a level of extreme anxiety and I said ‘look I will find her and I will go see her’. I gave her mother my word I would be by her bed then connected the call.

“It was a very emotional and lovely call. I excused myself after 40 seconds as the tears of happiness were streaming down.

“My impression was Emma comes from a very loving family.

“Her mum told her she was on the front of the Hobart Mercury and it was at that point Emma was starting to get a sense of the level of interest in Australia then when (foreign minister) Julie Bishop came on the line and then Malcolm Turnbull came on I thought for a young woman she was quite something, remarkable, and she conducted herself so well, she was very real.

“The wonderful thing about being Australian at this time, there was such level of sincerity and authenticity to the calls and she could feel that and responded accordingly. There are not to many countries when you stop and think about it that that would happen.”

Governor-General Peter Cosgrove had also rung Emma’s mother to see what he could do.

Meanwhile, Qantas has offered to fly Emma back home to reunite with her family as soon as she is ready to travel.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline was helping Emma’s mother fly from Hobart to Paris. He said Emma’s mother was en route to the French capital. She is expected to arrive in France tomorrow.

“When the lady is well enough to get out of hospital, our intention is to fly her and her parents back,” he said today.

Meanwhile, Australians booked to travel to Paris in coming days are being given the option of changing their flights.

Emirates has waived all re-booking, reissue and cancellation charges for passengers travelling to Paris, Lyon or Nice up to November 20.

The airline is also offering rebooking options for people who want to fly to other destinations.

Qantas is offering a similar deal.

It says passengers travelling between Australia and France up until tomorrow can reroute their flights, switch destinations or receive a credit on their ticket price.

Qantas has a codesharing agreement with Emirates on flights to Paris.

— with AAP