Anne Hidalgo and Jean Castex went to the Bataclan to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks of November 13.

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Five years ago, the most deadly attacks took place on French soil.

The authorities pay tribute this Friday to the victims of the attacks of November 13 in full resurgence of the terrorist threat in the country.

From the assassination of Samuel Paty on October 16 to the attack on the Basilica in Nice, the succession of attacks in recent weeks has reminded us that the jihadist wave that hit France in 2015 was not completely over even if it has changed shape.

This resurgence of the threat, recently raised to its maximum alert level, gave Friday a particular dimension to the traditional commemorations of the attacks, the trial of which is likely to begin in September 2021 and last six months.

Accompanied in particular by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Prime Minister Jean Castex went in the morning to the Bataclan, in front of the Stade de France and on cafe terraces in Paris where commandos unmanned by Daesh killed 130 people, sowing dread in the country.

"It's my way of saying that we don't forget them"

Around the performance hall, flanked by a large police force, the names of the victims echoed in the streets emptied by confinement, where only a few onlookers had come to meditate.

"It's my way of saying that we don't forget them, all those people who have left and all those who have psychological consequences, or who are disabled for life", breathes Martine Laupin, 72, a resident of the neighborhood. very moved.

Party officials will also pay their own tribute to the victims while the Eiffel Tower will turn off from 8 p.m. and will sparkle every hour in memory of this attack which caused a global shock wave.

Fear of sudden action by radicalized individuals

Today, the authorities fear less the resurgence of large coordinated attacks than the sudden act of radicalized individuals, encouraged by terrorist groups decimated but still active.

“They strike us again, but with fanatic individuals who use knives to create fear.

The war on our soil is therefore not over, but many battles have been won since 2015, ”said the former head of state François Hollande in the

Parisian

on Friday.

For many, the recent attacks in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo and Nice have revived the painful memory of November 13.

"What was attacked was sport, rejoicing together, music at the Bataclan, and recently, what is attacked is another symbol of the Republic: school, what is attacked is another symbol of our freedom to be together, religious freedom, with the attack in Nice, "Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, who was in charge of Defense in 2015, said on BFMTV on Friday." All this , it is our values ​​that we must protect and this requires from us a very great firmness with regard to terrorism, ”he added.

48 radicalized foreigners expelled

Pressured by these new attacks, the executive recently launched an offensive against political Islamism and promises to act more firmly against radicalized foreigners.

According to the Minister of the Interior, 48 of them have been expelled since July out of the 231 in the crosshairs of the authorities.

"There are still more than a hundred foreigners in an irregular situation whom we suspect of radicalization" on the national territory, declared Friday on franceinfo Gérald Darmanin, who is to unveil in December a controversial bill against Islamist separatism.

Double surveillance

Pressed on the right and the far right to pass emergency laws, the government is also trying to provide guarantees on the care of radicalized people currently in detention or those who will soon be released.

“There is not a convicted terrorist (…) who will go out without double surveillance.

Judicial supervision: judge for the application of anti-terrorism sentences;

police surveillance.

Not one of them ”, proclaimed the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti Friday on LCI.

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