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The first day of tributes to the victims of the November 13, 2015 attacks was held in Paris on Sunday. Thousands of people ran, walked or gathered in front of the attack site.
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Candles have returned to the Place de la République in Paris. A decade has passed, but the emotions are still intact, Sunday 9 November. A man, who was present at the Stade de France to celebrate his birthday on November 13, 2015, recalled “because of crying” And “the crowd ran out, knowing that the door was closed.” A woman who came to meditate recalled the incident “touch”Who “still hard to celebrate”.
Memories this Sunday, Yann Lafolie started with a run: 15 km of effort and honor. Near the Bataclan, he broke away from the peloton. Ten years ago, he attended the concert. “I laid my little sister down, there, on the Boulevard Voltaire and we went out through one of the doors into the passage. This passage, every time I pass here again, I… It gives me more emotions“, he said. From the Stade de France in Saint-Denis to Paris city hall, this is another step on the slow path to reconstruction. “The satisfaction of having finished this race and still standing”, said Yann Lafolie upon arrival.
In Paris today, those who couldn’t run clapped 13 times and marched together. In front of every terrace and every place of attack, the silence of contemplation, the tears of memory, for those who are unnamed and those who survived. “A tricky move, we say. Like every year before the anniversary, the symptoms returned a little. And there, they return more often than in other years”commented Christophe Naudin, a Bataclan survivor.
In a poster, the former owner of La Belle Equipe restaurant pays tribute to his former colleague. “We always think of them, every day, in all the glasses we toast, in all the evenings we spend together. They are still there, they will always be there.”he assured. The Sunday of reverence before the official commemoration, Thursday 13 November 2025, ten years later.
