At Place de la République, in Paris, on November 13, 2025. CAMILLE GHARBI FOR LE MONDE
French President Emmanuel Macron began a day of commemoration ceremonies on Thursday, November 13, 10 years on from France's worst attacks, beginning at the first site targeted, the Stade de France just outside Paris. Jihadists killed 130 people in shootings and suicide bombings in and around Paris on the night of November 13, 2015, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility.
Macron was joined by his wife, Brigitte Macron, and other senior politicians including former president Francois Hollande, who was in the stadium when the attack started. "The pain remains. In solidarity, for the lives lost, the wounded, the families and loved ones, France remembers," he wrote on X. Macron was due to visit all sites of the attacks, before presiding over a remembrance ceremony at a memorial garden in central Paris.
The attackers killed around 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall, where the US band Eagles of Death Metal was playing. They ended the lives of dozens more at Parisian restaurants and cafés, and one person near the Stade de France football stadium, where crowds were watching France play Germany.
