The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, participated, Monday, November 13, in Paris and Saint-Denis, in brief ceremonies of tribute to the 130 victims killed eight years ago during the worst terrorist attacks in France, claimed by the group Islamic State.
Alongside the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the head of government prayed successively at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, in front of five Parisian bars and restaurants targeted by the attackers, and finally in front of the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed.
“Placed under the sign of sobriety, dignity and contemplation”, this ceremony took place “without speaking”, communicated the Paris town hall. “On November 13, 2015, Islamist terrorism struck France in the heart,” Ms. Borne commented on X. “A day engraved in our memory, like the faces and names of those who were torn from us by barbarism . Tribute to the victims, their loved ones, the survivors. Let us never forget,” she added.
The attacks of November 13, 2015, carried out by three jihadist commandos, left 130 dead and more than 350 injured, in Paris in the Bataclan concert hall and on the terraces of bars and restaurants, as well as in Saint-Denis (in Seine -Saint-Denis) near the Stade de France. The historic trial of these attacks ended in June 2022, after ten months of hearings.
The Paris Special Assize Court sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commandos, to irreducible life imprisonment, the heaviest sentence in the penal code. His 19 co-defendants received sentences ranging from two years to life in prison.
