{"id":376227,"date":"2025-11-13T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376227\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:50:11","slug":"france-honors-victims-of-the-paris-attacks-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376227\/","title":{"rendered":"France honors victims of the Paris attacks 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Sophie Dias fought tears outside the Stade de France on Thursday as she described her \u201cvoid that never closes\u201d since her father became the first person killed in France\u2019s deadliest peacetime attack<\/a> — a night of terrorism a decade ago that still scars Paris and shapes the country.<\/p>\n

The coordinated assaults on Nov. 13, 2015 turned the French capital into a theater of blood and calamity: gunfire on caf\u00e9 terraces, explosions at a stadium, a massacre at the Bataclan concert hall. Many in France and abroad have described the attacks as the country\u2019s 9\/11.<\/p>\n

The mental scars Salim Toorabally suffered as a result of the Paris terror attacks 10 years ago still affect him today. It was Toorabally who stopped Bilal Hadfi, one of the three militants who targeted the national stadium on November 13, 2015, from entering the stadium. (AP Video: Alexander Turnbull)<\/p>\n

The attacks killed 132 people<\/a>, including two survivors who later died by suicide, and hundreds more were wounded. The night hardened France\u2019s security reflexes while deepening a sense of solidarity that has endured a decade later \u2014 with many families now measuring time as \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dias\u2019 father, Manuel, died when the first bomber detonated outside the Stade de France. Speaking at the stadium gate where he was killed, she said the absence he left \u201cweighs every morning and every evening, for 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are told to turn the page,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the absence is immense, the shock is intact and the incomprehension remains. I\u2019d like to know why, I\u2019d like to understand. I\u2019d like these attacks to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> and first lady Brigitte Macron stood beside her for a wreath-laying and a minute of silent remembrance during the first in a day of tributes at the places where Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers hit a soccer match, neighborhood caf\u00e9s and a rock concert in the space of minutes. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also was present. <\/p>\n

\u201cTen years. The pain remains,\u201d Macron wrote earlier on X, saying France remembers \u201cthe lives cut short, the wounded, the families and the loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tributes trace the path of carnage<\/p>\n

From Saint-Denis, Macron is traveling to each attack site in sequence: the Carillon and Petit Cambodge caf\u00e9s in the 10th arrondissement, then La Bonne Bi\u00e8re, Le Comptoir Voltaire and La Belle \u00c9quipe in the 11th, and finally the Bataclan, where 90 people were killed during a three-hour siege. Families of the victims are being placed closest to plaques at each location in what the presidency calls a \u201cfamilies first\u201d protocol.<\/p>\n

At the caf\u00e9 terraces, the names of the 39 people killed there were read aloud. <\/p>\n

Outside the Bataclan, the boulevard fell silent as an afternoon ceremony began. Families and survivors gathered alongside current and former officials \u2014 including ex-President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls \u2014 while religious leaders and representatives of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, whose premises were also attacked just months before, joined them in tribute.<\/p>\n

At Place de la R\u00e9publique, Parisians gathered with candles, flowers and handwritten notes at the base of Marianne, the national symbol, as they did in 2015. Big screens broadcast the ceremonies. <\/p>\n

\u201cTen years later, the emotion is still intact\u201d and hope must be shared \u201cdespite the pain and the absence,\u201d Hidalgo said at the event.<\/p>\n

A new memorial garden and a city still carrying the night<\/p>\n

The commemorations were set to culminate with the inauguration of the \u201cNovember 13 Memory Garden\u201d opposite City Hall. <\/p>\n

Conceived with victims\u2019 associations, it is a stone enclosure from which granite blocks rise to evoke the attack sites, engraved with the victims\u2019 names. The evening ceremony, attended by Macron, will be built around music in tribute to the spirit of festivity the attackers tried to destroy.<\/p>\n

The Eiffel Tower is to be lit again in the colors of the French flag after nightfall, as it was Wednesday night. Church bells across the capital, including those of Notre-Dame Cathedral, are due to ring in the early evening in memory of what the city\u2019s archbishop called \u201ca long night of anguish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attacks reshaped France\u2019s political and emotional landscape, triggering sweeping counterterrorism powers and years of debate over security and liberties. Hidalgo said she can no longer pass the attack sites \u201cwithout seeing them through the filter of that terrible night.\u201d <\/p>\n

Valls told French broadcaster TF1 he remembers \u201cevery minute, as if my memory refuses to forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez warned Thursday that the terrorist threat remains \u201cvery high,\u201d even if a large, coordinated operation like that of 2015 is considered less likely than a decade ago. <\/p>\n

Officials now fear more the actions of individuals who radicalize on French soil.<\/p>\n

Survivors try to move on<\/p>\n

On that Friday night in 2015, nine Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another. Suicide bombers detonated outside the Stade de France; gunmen sprayed bullets across caf\u00e9 terraces; and three attackers stormed the Bataclan at 9:47 p.m., killing 90 people before police ended the siege. Two survivors who later died by suicide have since been recognized among the victims, bringing the toll to 132.<\/p>\n

For survivors, the anniversary reopens wounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 10th anniversary is here and emotions and tension are everywhere for us survivors,\u201d said Arthur D\u00e9nouveaux, who escaped the Bataclan and leads the Life for Paris association. \u201cYou never fully heal. You just learn to live differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many describe a second task after grief: rebuilding the ordinary \u2014 work, friendship, noise \u2014 without flinching.<\/p>\n

A 2021\u20132022 trial ended with life imprisonment<\/a> without parole for Salah Abdeslam, the lone surviving assailant, and convictions for 19 others. For many, accountability did not erase the strain of trauma or the daily work of recovery; it clarified what must be protected.<\/p>\n

As names are read and wreaths laid, the message from officials and families is consistent: remember the victims, honor the responders, and preserve the everyday pleasures the attackers meant to destroy \u2014 football, music, a table with friends. <\/p>\n

The goal, planners say, is simple: grief without spectacle, memory with room for the living.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Nicolas Garriga and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Sophie Dias fought tears outside the Stade de France on Thursday as she described her…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":376228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[160884,3881,180945,10762,180944,180943,136028,4219,8703,156,57,4222,63644,159025,180942,50,3715,180658,3677,180946,5343,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-376227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-anne-hidalgo","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-arthur-dnouveaux","11":"tag-assault","12":"tag-belle-quipe","13":"tag-brigitte-macron","14":"tag-charlie-hebdo","15":"tag-crime","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-general-news","19":"tag-gun-violence","20":"tag-islamic-state-group","21":"tag-laurent-nuez","22":"tag-manuel-valls","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-paris","25":"tag-salah-abdeslam","26":"tag-shootings","27":"tag-sophie-dias","28":"tag-terrorism","29":"tag-world","30":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115543187436765273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}