Overview
- The coordinated assaults on 13 November 2015 struck the Stade de France, café terraces and the Bataclan, killing about 130 people and injuring hundreds.
- At the Bataclan, three gunmen killed 90 people and wounded more than 300, with an investigating judge later crediting a door supervisor’s intervention with preventing hundreds more deaths.
- An eyewitness at the Stade de France recalls two suicide bombings during the France–Germany match and the evacuation of President François Hollande as confusion spread.
- New documentaries and first‑person accounts for the tenth anniversary revive the night’s chaos, survivor trauma and early misinformation that shaped public understanding.
- In 2022, the largest criminal trial in modern France delivered prison sentences to 19 associates and the lone surviving ringleader Salah Abdeslam, even as expanded policing and surveillance powers continue to define daily life.