""My father loved life. He believed in freedom, in the simple joy of being together, of sharing precious moments with his family, and he instilled in us the values of the Republic. That's what hatred sought to destroy. But that's precisely what we carry with us today. Stronger than anything, despite the pain, despite the absence and this gaping hole. We remain standing.""
""Three bombers sought but failed to get inside the stadium. Security agent Salim Toorabally turned away one of them and, after they detonated their explosive vests outside, tended a wounded man. 'He had like these bolts (pieces of metal) lodged in his thigh,' Mr Toorabally said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'There was blood. I didn't have gloves on, and there were pieces of flesh in my hands.'""
Gunmen and suicide bombers from the so-called Islamic State group killed 132 people and injured hundreds in Paris on November 13, 2015. Minutes of silence and readings of victims' names marked memorials across the city as Parisians mourned and recalled acts of mutual care and gradual recovery. President Emmanuel Macron led memorial events, laid wreaths at attack sites, and honored the lives cut short, the wounded, and bereaved families. Sophie Dias described a 'void that never closes' after her father Manuel was killed outside the Stade de France. Three bombers failed to enter the stadium; a security agent, Salim Toorabally, turned one away and later tended a wounded man, describing severe injuries. Macron, first lady Brigitte Macron, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited attack sites and spoke with survivors and relatives.
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