US Edition‘I Needed to Leave a Trace’: Survivors of the Paris Attacks Share Their Stories, Ten Years On
Survivors recount trauma and resilience since 2015 attacks that killed 130, highlighting ongoing struggles and a historic trial with over 2,500 civil proceedings.
- On November 13, survivors of the November 13 attacks reflected that turning the page is not simple, while Bahareh Akrami, Carillon survivor, sees the commemoration as a chance to keep memories alive.
- Islamic State group claimed responsibility for coordinated strikes across Paris, killing 130 people and wounding hundreds, plunging the city into mourning on the night of November 13.
- The nine‑month trial involved over one million pages of investigation file, more than 2,500 civil proceedings, 327 lawyers, and many survivors testified about the 14 defendants.
- Many survivors face long‑term psychological and practical consequences, with daily routines changed as Alix Ikal and Sébastien Blascou avoid public venues and one person connected to victims died by suicide last year.
- Survivors are preserving memory through art and testimony; Bahareh Akrami said `I needed to leave a trace` and turned trial illustrations into a graphic‑novel journal.
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This war that doesn't say his name.
Ten years after the attacks on 13 November, the LifeForParis Association laments that France has not invested in preventing radicalisation. Attacks caused more than 130 deaths.
On Thursday 13 November, the ceremonies of tribute to the victims of terrorism were held in the various places bruised by the jihadist attacks. With, behind the officials, survivors, relatives of victims or mere residents who lived in their flesh the horror of that evening.
Fluctutat nec mergitur: “beaten by the waves, but not sunk.” The Latin motto of Paris, represented by a boat sailing in agitated waters on the shield of the capital of France, symbolizing the resilience and strength of the city in the face of adversity, has become the motto of the French population this Thursday. On November 13, 2015, nine terrorists stormed the city with a series of coordinated attacks and 130 people lost their lives in an even…
France remembers on Thursday the 132 victims of the attacks perpetrated by jihadists on terraces, bars and a concert hall in Paris, a “pain” that “is still alive” ten years later.
130 dead, hundreds more injured: Today, the terrorist night in Paris of 13 November 2015 marks the tenth time. Islamists launched a massacre in the Bataclan concert hall, suicide bombers blew themselves up in a football match at the Stade de France, people were attacked in bars and restaurants. France today commemorates the numerous victims. But the terror continues to spread.
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