France commemorates 10 years since brutal attacks in Paris with heavy hearts

10 years later, This Thursday, France commemorated the attacks of November 13, 2015. On a calm night, the terror began at 9:26 p.m., with everyone in the cafes and terraces of Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, when eight terrorist attacks by the Islamic State occurred in 33 minutes. The country remembers them. France commemorates the victims of terrorism and celebrates communion.

two-car special forces He advanced with a Kalashnikov Located on every corner of the 10th and 11th arrondissements of Paris. The city of youth, the city of Movida, the city of joy in Paris. People enjoying a night out with friends were shocked. he executed them indiscriminately And some of them fell to the floor and were overjoyed. Then they exploded.

in front they attacked the Stade de FranceGermany and France faced each other. President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were enjoying a soccer match when they were abducted.

In 2015, three jihadists were forced to blow themselves up inside the stadium. Only one terrorist escaped without detonating: Salah Abdeslam He should have died in the stadium attack. He regretted it and threw away the explosive vest. At Montrouge. He wandered through a shocked Paris under siege, filled with fear and sirens, before fleeing to Brussels. He is being held in a maximum security prison in Calais and is someone who would like to speak to his family. No one believes his conversion. ex-wife arrested This week, she was organizing another vigil with other women.

It all started at the Stade de France. Manuel Díaz, a Portuguese man, died there. Silence and La Marseillaise. His daughter Sophie asks that this first attack and her father not be forgotten.

“There is still work to do and I think that will be my fight for the future, to remember the only victims of the Stade de France and the place where it all started,” Sophie said in her first eulogy of the day.

That night, Saint-Denis held his breath.. The city’s socialist mayor, Mathieu Anotin, then spoke in front of the Stade de France. “Manuel Diaz is the first in a very long list.” “November 13, 2015 was yesterday,” he declared. “Ten years later, France remains strong as it mourns its dead. Fear did not prevail.”

France remembers The atmosphere is solemn, gloomy, and tense. 97% of French people expect more terrorist attacks on their territory. Last night, the Plaza de la Repubblica was filled with people, lit with candles and decorated with thousands of flowers. In 2015, it was the epicenter of shock, grief, pain and fear for the entire country. Police officers on duty today bowed their heads in honor of their colleagues and the victims.

President Emmanuel Macron, President François Hollande, head of state at the time of the attack and now a member of the Socialist Party, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. they forgot all their differences Share unique, deep emotions and moving moments of silence. Only former President Nicolas Sarkozy was absent due to judicial issues.

they were in front of me Le Petit Cambridgea restaurant run by Cambodian exiles who fled to France. killing fields Inside Pol Pot’s compound, he encounters horror itself. Opposite Le Carillon, candles in the colors of the French flag were lit.

there was nothing more Neighboring authorities and relatives of the victims. The audience was even further away. Security was tight and police were equipped with combat rifles. People watched from the building’s balcony.

There was tremendous silence, and flowers were piled up in a corner. No one could remember without tears that hellish night in Afghanistan, filled with gunshots, noise, dead people, bleeding wounded, desperate friends, ambulance sirens and extreme fear. Many of the survivors were there and could not remember without tears. It was immoral to ask them about pain.

The names of the victims were read out in Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon; they put a wreath White in the name of the president and the mayor of Paris.

“We are experiencing this series of events as a tragedy and as a horror. At the same time, we are concentrating on the decisions we have to make, not knowing whether this will lead to another attack,” recalled former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who attended the memorial service.

The third ceremony was held in front of La Bonne Bière Café and La Cosa Nostra Café. President Emmanuel Macron was late with his wife Brigitte. He spoke to the victim’s relatives for 30 minutes.

Everyone was waiting for it. When he arrived, the scene was repeated. Five people died there. Everyone was invited to observe a two-minute silence in memory of all the victims of November 13th. Terrorist special forces on November 13 continued their attack there two minutes after the initial attack at 9:26 p.m.

Our next stop was La Belle Époque, a bar on Rue Charonne. Marble plaques commemorate the victims and an official voice reads out the victims. Before reaching the Bataclan, a symbol of fear. That party room where the band played heavy metal death metal eagles Then three terrorists invaded and created an unforgettable hell. It was 90 people died, To this day there are hundreds of injured and hundreds of traumatized survivors.

The Bataclan was reborn even though the wound was open. Officials aren’t the only ones in front of colorful doors and windows. There are police officers, firefighters and paramedics who took part in the raids and rescues of that brutal act of war in Paris.

Former President Hollande and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls will greet police officers, firefighters, special forces with their faces covered, emergency workers and doctors one by one. A hellish and terrifying night with immense emotions and memories of so many heroic deeds.

That November 13, Michelle and her BAC 75 colleagues were in a training session when police radio alerted them of a shooting. “We met the police chief in front of the Bataclan. We were the first to arrive. I remember entering through the front door, blinded by stage spotlights. We saw terrorist magazines on the ground, lifeless bodies intertwined, traces of blood, the screams of someone dying. We were the ones who cleared the graves, and then the BRI came,” one of the police chiefs said.

Ten years later, “we are taking a step back and trying to understand what happened. My colleagues are not ashamed of their actions that night. We still regret that we should have done more.”

It was 3:19 p.m. When the ceremony began as a symbol of terrorism. Mr. Macron will set up shop in front of the Bataclan door. The reading of the 90 victims begins. Emmanuel, Maxime, Elodie, Frédéric, Claire, Nicolas, Baptiste, Elsa, Patricia, Alban, Vincent, Fabrice, Romain, Thomas, Mathias, Marie, Germain, Grégoire, Christophe, Julien, Cedric, Juan Alberto, Stéphane, Anne, Pierre, Steph Juan, Olivier, Pierre, Mathieu, Nathalie, Marion, Jean-Jacques, Nathalie, Bruno, Gilles, Christophe, Claire, Cecile, Antoine, Cedric, Isabelle, Cecile, Marine, Valentine, Stella, Thibault, Madeleine, Laura, Maud, Alejandro, Fabien, Arianne, Guillaume. Each name has a story; A tragedy, a family that mourns them and misses them.

Former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, Culture Minister Rashida Dati, and survivors who arrived took part in the event. Many of those who survived the horrors, but were unable to continue living with the trauma and memories, committed suicide. There is a deep, moving, respectful silence. dozens of bouquet Many flowers are leaning over the door.

Arthur Deneuveau, a survivor of the Bataclan attack and president of the Life for Paris association, also attended the memorial service. Tonight he is scheduled to take part in a ceremony commemorating the attack.

He said it was a “moment of unity. The goal this year is for us all to come together to remember the dead, but also to celebrate the strength of our republic and our culture. The terrorists did not win that night, and that is the message we want to send.”

A grand ceremony was planned for the evening at the Hotel de Ville, the main building of the mayor’s office. The bells of Notre-Dame Cathedral and all the churches of the capital will ring from 5:57 p.m. and 6:03 p.m. Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich announced this in a message to the people of Paris, saying it would be a tribute to the victims. The Eiffel Tower will be lit up in French colors.

At 6 p.m., a commemoration ceremony for the November 13 attacks will begin, chaired by Thierry Leboul. He said he wanted a ceremony that was “dignified and ambitious” – one for everyone, “both the dead and the living.”

“This is for the families of the victims, for the people of Paris and for all French people,” he said, adding that the ceremony would have symbolic meaning. “I’ve tried to make sure that nothing you see tonight is unnecessary. Everything has meaning.”

President Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate a memorial garden near City Hall. The important ceremony will take place from 6 to 7:40 p.m. A new memorial garden near City Hall will commemorate the attack and pay tribute to the “celebratory spirit”. President Emmanuel Macron will also attend the ceremony to mark the completion of the garden.

The garden, now open to the public and designed by the Wagon Landscape Bureau with the participation of landscape architect Gilles Clément, features granite blocks evoking the six attack sites emerging from the stone enclosure, inscribed with the names of the victims, and a street map carved into the ground.