Overview
- President Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate a memorial garden beside Paris City Hall and lay wreaths at attack sites during Thursday’s nationwide remembrance.
- The garden, designed with survivors and families, evokes the six targeted locations and bears the victims’ names engraved on steles.
- Salah Abdeslam, serving life without parole, has asked through his lawyer to contact victims for dialogue under a restorative‑justice process.
- Victims’ leader Arthur Denouveaux voiced cautious openness, while DGSI chief Céline Berthon and Charlie Hebdo editor Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau rejected the approach as the work of an unrepentant extremist.
- Officials warn the jihadist threat endures with a shift toward lone actors, citing roughly six disrupted plots in 2025 and planned tributes at civic sites and at the France–Ukraine match in Paris.