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France Marks 10 Years Since Paris Attacks With Citywide Tributes and New Memory Garden

Leaders pair remembrance with a warning that the terror threat has shifted rather than vanished.

Overview

  • President Emmanuel Macron led wreath-layings at each attack site before presiding over the inauguration of the November 13 Memory Garden near City Hall.
  • Church bells rang and monuments were lit as names of the dead—including two survivors later recognized after suicides—were read and inscribed on commemorative plaques.
  • Salah Abdeslam remains imprisoned for life with 19 others convicted, and prosecutors this week charged his former partner in a separate terrorism plot investigation.
  • Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the threat level remains very high, with authorities most concerned about self-radicalized individuals and online propaganda rather than large coordinated cells.
  • A Terrorism Memorial Museum planned for 2029 will conserve about 500 family-donated artifacts, from a Bataclan concert ticket to a bullet-riddled café menu.