France marks decade since harrowing Paris attacks

"Jihadists killed 130 people in shootings and suicide bombings in and around Paris on the night of November 13, 2015, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility. The attackers killed around 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall, where the US band Eagles of Death Metal was playing."

""France over these years has been able to stand united and overcome it all," François Hollande, who was president at the time, told AFP in a recent interview. Hollande was in the crowd at the football stadium when the attacks erupted. He was whisked out of the audience before re-appearing on national television later that night, describing what had happened as a "horror". He declared France "at war" with the jihadists and their self-proclaimed caliphate, then straddling Syria and Iraq."

Jihadist assaults on November 13, 2015 killed 130 people in coordinated shootings and suicide bombings across Paris and its outskirts. Attackers struck the Bataclan concert hall, where around 90 people died during a performance by Eagles of Death Metal, targeted restaurants and cafes, and one victim was killed near the Stade de France during a France–Germany match. Nine attackers died; Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the ten-person cell and is serving life imprisonment after a 148-day trial. President Emmanuel Macron will visit all attack sites and preside over a remembrance ceremony at a central Paris memorial garden. France continues long-term memorial planning.

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