The most prestigious national awards were awarded to them. Police officers who intervened at the Bataclan theater, where 92 people died in the November 13, 2015 attack, will be awarded the Legion of Honor, President Emmanuel Macron announced this Thursday.
“The police officers who intervened in the Alpha and Bravo columns to neutralize the attackers (…) will be elevated to the Legion of Honor as a testimony to the special recognition of the nation,” he said at the memorial park inaugurated in the heart of Paris ten years after these attacks, granting the request of the victims’ association.
Between covers of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” performed by choir 13 and singer Jesse Hugues from Eagles of Death Metal and Axelle Saint-Cirel’s Marseillaise, the Head of State paid tribute to the victims. “The terrorists found many people braver than them,” he said. “France survived, the Republic survived, in the emergency, through fraternity, through justice, through love of life, we survived and everyone played their part, your life which they had denied, reduced to status, has now become our life, universal,” he added.
The ceremony ended with a cover of “Shooting Stars” by Rival Sons by a 13-piece choir and drone footage drawing a peace symbol in front of the Eiffel Tower.
