Paris: United States Vice President Kamala Harris and Prime Minister of France Jean Castex put a bouquet of flowers in a Paris cafe and the French national football stadium Saturday six years since a deadly terror attack that made 130 people died.
The attack by three separate teams from the Jihadist Islamic State group on November 13, 2015, was the worst in France since World War II.
Gunmen cut 129 people in front of the cafe and in the concert hall in the capital, while a bus driver was killed after the suicide bomber blew himself to the gate of the stadium in the outskirts of the city on the outskirts of the city.
Harris, wrapped up a four-day trip to France, placed a white bouquet in front of a plaque that respected the victims outside the Paris cafe.
Castex attended a minute silence at the Stade de France Football Stadium, along with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, before putting a bouquet of flowers at the location of other attacks in Paris.
In front of the BataClan concert hall, the survivors and relatives of the victims listened to someone read the names of each of the 90 people killed during the concert there six years ago.
The public warning of the tragedy was canceled last year due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
“Last year we were not allowed to come and we all felt very difficult,” said Bruno Poncet, who made him live-life from Bataclan.
But he said the beginning of the trial of the attack in September meant that those who attended this year’s commemoration was more united.
“We were really bound thanks to the trial,” he said.
“During the previous staining, we will see each other from afar without really daring to talk to each other.
We are really shy.” But standing in court really changed everything.
“‘Overcome everything’ marathon trials, the biggest.
In the history of modern French law, it is expected to last up to 2022 May Brussels.
Six defendants were tried in absentia.
Poncet said he felt very important that he attended an audience.” I can’t not.
This is our life being discussed in the room, and it is important to come to support others and try to overcome it all.
“The survivors have been taken to the witness to tell the horror’s horror, but also to describe life afterwards.
Some say they have struggled with post-traumatic stress disorders, wrestling with survivors, or even feeling alienated from other communities.
Philippe Duperron, Head of the Association of the victims of the attack, said far more people had registered.
For lunch after the ceremony on Saturday than the previous years.
“The trial was undoubtedly needed to be strengthened,” he said.
Saturday’s warning must be wrapped in one minute of silence The second football stadium, Parc des Princes, at night before the kick-off for the match between France and Kazakhstan.
It was during a soccer match between France and Germany at the Stade de France that the three suicide bombers ended in 2015.
Then -President Francois Hollande was one of 80,000 people in the crowd, before he was silent M was taken away to avoid triggering panic mass.
6 years in, US VP Harris, PM France Honor Victims of Paris Terror Attack
