Six years after the horror, the commemoration of November 13th organized on Saturday in Saint-Denis and Paris is more symbolic than ever, at a time when the historic trial currently underway is testing the victims and shaping the collective memory of these attacks.
The pandemic had prevented victims from assembling in 2020, with a ceremony reduced to a minimum during containment.
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This year's tribute is marked by the ordeal of the trial, which since September has revived in great detail the memory of the most deadly terrorist attack ever committed in France.
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The trial has brought us all closer together and there is a very strong desire to meet in a commemorative setting
", told AFP Arthur Dénouveaux, the president of the association of victims Life for Paris.
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The commemoration will crystallize a strengthening of the links between the victims.
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Stade de France, terraces, Bataclan ...
Accompanied in particular by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Prime Minister Jean Castex began the tour of tributes with a wreath laying followed by a minute of silence in front of the Stade de France around 9.15 a.m., before heading for the terraces of cafes and Bataclan in Paris, where commandos unmanned by the Islamic State (IS) group had killed 130 people and injured more than 350 in 2015, sowing terror in the country.
Jean Castex and the mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin in front of the Stade de France.
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Jean Castex and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo not far from Carillon and Petit Cambodge.
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This series of tributes, which will end with a minute of silence just before the France - Kazakhstan football match (8:45 p.m.) at the Parc des Princes, comes barely two weeks after the end of the first phase of the trial, where more than 350 civil parties retraced the course of this apocalyptic evening at the helm.
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Post-traumatic stress, guilt of the survivor, persistent gap with the rest of society ... For a month, the testimonies of the victims and their relatives revealed the indelible scars and the extent of the psychological damage of these attacks on hundreds of broken lives.
To face the rest of the hearing, which must continue until the end of May, "
people feel that we have to stick together,
" summarizes Mr. Dénouveaux.
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Sharing all these experiences at the helm also increased the feeling of belonging to a meaningful community
”.
