With a heavy heart, France marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal attacks in Paris

Ten years later, Today, Thursday, France commemorated the attacks of November 13, 2015. Eight terrorist attacks carried out by ISIS in 33 minutes, on a mild night, with everyone in the cafes and balconies of Paris and at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, when the terror began at 9:26 p.m. The country remembers them. France in company, in honor of the victims of terrorism.

Two-car commando He advanced with Kalashnikov rifles In every corner of the 10th and 11th quarters of Paris. Youth district, Movida, Parisian joy. Those who were enjoying a night out with friends were devastated. He executed them randomly Some are on the ground, with a stroke of grace. Then they exploded.

before They attacked the Stade de FranceWhere Germany and France faced each other. President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were enjoying the football match and then left.

In 2015, three jihadists were forced to blow themselves up in the stadium. Only one terrorist did not explode and escape: Salah Abdel Salam He should have died attacking the field. He regretted it and dropped his explosive vest. In Montrouge. He fled to Brussels after wandering through a shocked Paris, in a state of siege filled with fear and sirens. He is incarcerated in a maximum security prison in Calais and wants to talk to his families. No one believes in his conversion. His ex-wife was arrested This week because she was organizing another memorial attack with other women.

It all started at the Stade de France. The Portuguese Manuel Diaz died there. A minute of silence and La Marseillaise. His daughter, Sophie, asks not to forget this first attack, nor to forget her father.

“There is still work to be done and I think this will be my fight for the future: not to forget the only victim of the Stade de France and this place, where it all began,” Sophie said in her first tribute of the day.

that night, Saint-Denis held his breath. Then the city’s socialist mayor, Mathieu Hanotin, spoke in front of the Stade de France. “Manuel Dias is the first in a very long list.” “November 13, 2015 was yesterday,” he declared. “Ten years later, France still mourns its dead, but it remains strong. Fear has not won.”

France remembers in Solemn, gloomy and tense atmosphere. 97% of the French expect more terrorist attacks on their soil. Place de la République was covered with people last night, with lit candles and thousands of flowers. In 2015, it was the center of shock, mourning, pain and fear for an entire country. Today the police officers on duty bowed in honor of their colleagues and the victims.

President Emmanuel Macron, his counterpart François Hollande, who was head of state during the attacks and today a Socialist MP, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. They forgot all their differences To share unique and deep feelings and a touching moment of silence. There was only former President Nicolas Sarkozy due to his judicial problems.

They were in front Le Petit CambodgeRestaurant for Cambodian exiles who came to France to escape their country Killing fields Pol Pot faced the same horror at his headquarters. Opposite Le Carillon restaurant, which lit candles in the colors of the French flag.

There was nothing more Authorities and relatives of the victims in the vicinity. The audience was away. Security measures were very strict, as the police were armed with combat rifles. People were watching from the balconies of the buildings.

The flowers were piled up in the corner, in immense silence. No one can remember without tears that hellish night, which sounded like Afghanistan, with the gunshots, the noise, the dead, the bleeding wounded, the desperate friends, the ambulance sirens, and the terrible fear. Many survivors were there, unable to remember without crying. It was unethical to ask them about their pain.

The names of the victims were read out at Le Petit Cambodge, Le Carillon and They laid a wreath White in the name of the president and mayor of Paris.

Former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who was present at the memorial service, said, “We are witnessing this sequence of events as a tragedy and a horror. At the same time, we are focusing on the decisions that must be taken, in a context where we do not know whether this will lead to new attacks.”

The third ceremony was held in front of the cafes La Bonne Bière and La Cosa Nostra. President Emmanuel Macron lingered with Brigitte, the First Lady. He spoke for half an hour with relatives of the victims.

Everyone was waiting for this. He arrived and the scene was repeated. Five people died there. In memory of all the victims of November 13, everyone is invited to stand for two minutes of silence. The November 13 terrorist commando continued its attack there, two minutes after its first attack, at 9:26 p.m.

Next stop was La Belle Époque bar on Rue de Charonne. A marble plaque commemorates the victims and is read by an official voice. Before arriving at the symbol of horror: the Bataclan. The party room where the band played Heavy metal Death Metal Eagles Three terrorists entered to create an unforgettable hell. He was 90 dead Hundreds of wounded and hundreds of traumatized survivors to this day.

The Bataclan has been reborn, even with its open wounds. In front of its colorful doors and windows there are not only authorities. There are police officers, firefighters and paramedics who participated in the attack and in the rescue of this brutal act of war in Paris.

Former President Hollande and his former Prime Minister Manuel Valls salute one by one police officers, firefighters, special forces with their faces covered, paramedics and doctors. There is tremendous emotion and memory of many heroic deeds on a hellish and terrifying night.

On November 13 of that year, Michel and his teammates from the 75th BAC were in a training session, when their police radio alerted them of a shooting. One police chief said: “We met the police commissioner in front of the Bataclan. We were the first to arrive. I remember entering the main door, blinded by the stage light. I saw terrorist magazines on the floor, tangled bodies, trails of blood, and the screams of a dying person. We were the ones who cleared the grave, and then the Belt and Road Initiative came into being.”

Ten years later, “We take a step back and try to understand what happened. My colleagues have nothing to be ashamed of for what they did that night. Although we still regret not doing more.”

It was 3:19 p.m. When the party started with the horror slogan. Macron opens a store in front of the Bataclan door. Begin reading The 90 Victims. Emmanuel, Maxime, Elodie, Frederic, Claire, Nicola, Baptiste, Elsa, Patricia, Alban, Vincent, Fabrice, Romain, Thomas, Mathias, Marie, Germain, Gregoire, Christophe, Julien, Cédric, Juan Alberto, Stephane, Anne, Pierre, Stephane, Olivier, Pierre, Mathieu, Nathalie, Marion, Jean-Jacques, Nathalie, Bruno, Gilles, Christophe, Claire, Cécile, Antoine, Cédric, Isabelle, Cécile, Marine, Valentin, Stella, Thibault, Madeleine, Lola, Maud, Alejandro, Fabien, Ariane, Guillaume. Every name has a story A tragedy, a family mourns and misses them.

Former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, Culture Minister Rachida Dati and the survivors who arrived joined the event. There is a large number of suicides among those who survived the horror but were unable to come to terms with the trauma and memory. There is a deep, moving and respectful silence. Dozens of Packages Of flowers leaning on the doors.

Arthur Denovo, a survivor of the Bataclan attack and president of the Life for Paris association, was present at the tribute ceremony. Tonight, he will participate in a ceremony commemorating the attacks.

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

In the evening, a big celebration was planned at the Hotel de Ville, the headquarters of the mayor’s office. The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral and all churches in the capital will ring between 5:57 p.m. and 6:03 p.m. It will be a tribute to the victims, according to what the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, announced in a message to Parisians. The Eiffel Tower will be illuminated in the colors of France.

At six o’clock in the evening, the commemoration ceremony for the November 13 attacks will begin, chaired by Thierry Ripoll. He stated that he wanted a “dignified and ambitious” party, a party for everyone “living and dead.”

“This is for everyone: the families of the victims, the Parisians and all the French,” he said, adding that the ceremony would be full of symbolism. “I’ve tried to make sure that what we’re seeing tonight isn’t gratuitous. Everything has a meaning.”

President Emmanuel Macron will open a memorial park near the city hall. An important ceremony will be held between 6 and 7:40 p.m. In the new memorial park, near the city hall, to remember the attacks and pay tribute to the “spirit of celebration”. Emmanuel Macron will attend the ceremony and open the park.

This park, now open to the public and designed by Wagon Landscaping with landscape architect Gil Kleiman, is a stone enclosure from which protrude blocks of granite evoking the sites of the six attacks, with the names of the victims engraved on them, and on the ground a map of the streets.