"A great reason why so many were killed is because so many people wouldn't leave their friends. So many people put themselves in front of people," he said in an excerpted interview with Vice.Com.
Several people tried to escape by hiding in the band's dressing room, to little avail, he said.
"The killers were able to get in and killed every one of them except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket," Hugues said, choking back sobs.
Gunmen attacked nearly simultaneously at several points across Paris, killing 130 people, 89 of them at the Bataclan music hall.