Antoine Leiris, directly addressed the terror gang who gunned down his wife Hélène Muyal-Leiris, a 30-something make-up artist from Paris, during the concert last Friday.
Describing the gang, now known to consist of terrorists Omar Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28, who both fled to Syria before returning to murder 89 concertgoers, Mr Leiris wrote: ‘I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know, you are dead souls.’
He added: ‘If this God for whom you are killing blindly made us out of his image, every bullet in my wife’s body would have been a wound to his heart.’
Mr Leiris said he would not give the fanatics the ‘gift’ of hatred despite the fact that they had ‘come looking for it’.
He added: ‘You want me to be scared, for me to look at my fellow citizens with mistrust, for me to sacrifice my freedom for safety, you have lost. The same player plays on.’
The letter has been shared across the globe more than 100,000 times on Facebook and dozens of tributes have been left by friends of the family.
One wrote: ‘I have no words. My whole heart goes out to you.’
In the heartbreaking note, Mr Leiris told of how he fell in love with his wife 12 years ago and described saying goodbye to her on Friday night.
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