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Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Prime Minister Jean Castex attended a memorial service
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It's been five years since Islamist terrorists killed 130 people in a series of attacks in Paris.
Now France has thought of the deaths.
Prime Minister Jean Castex and Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited the various locations in Paris and in the suburb of Saint-Denis for short and silent commemorations, as the news channel BFMTV reported.
Because of the Corona restrictions in France, official ceremonies can only take place in small groups.
The public could not attend the memorial services.
In a series of coordinated attacks on November 13, 2015, the attackers shot people at random and some of them blew themselves up.
The perpetrators targeted the Bataclan concert hall, Parisian cafés, restaurants and the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis.
The detonations could be heard live on television during the soccer friendly between Germany and France.
It was France's deadliest attack in peacetime that shook the nation deeply.
It led to increased French military action against extremists abroad and to crackdown on the part of the security forces at home.
After four and a half years, French investigating magistrates brought charges against 20 suspects in March.
Among them is Salah Abdeslam, who has already been convicted in Belgium, said the anti-terrorist prosecutor in Paris.
The highest terror warning level applies again
France is currently being ravaged by terrorism again, and several people have died in attacks in recent weeks.
In mid-October, the teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a Paris suburb by an alleged violent Islamist.
At the end of October, an attacker killed three people in a church in Nice.
The highest terror warning level in the country applies again.
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