A special tribute.

Six years after the horror, the commemoration of the November 13 attacks organized this Saturday promises to be more symbolic than ever, at a time when the historic trial currently underway is testing the victims and shaping the collective memory of these attacks.

The pandemic had prevented victims from assembling in 2020, with a ceremony reduced to a minimum during containment.

This year's tribute is marked by the ordeal of the trial, which since September has revived in great detail the memory of the most deadly terrorist attack ever committed in France.

"The trial brought us all closer together and there is a very strong desire to meet in a commemorative setting," says Arthur Dénouveaux, the president of the association of victims Life for Paris.

“The commemoration will crystallize a strengthening of the links between the victims.

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Accompanied in particular by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Prime Minister Jean Castex must go to the Bataclan, in front of the Stade de France and on café terraces in Paris, where commandos guided by the Islamic State group had killed 130 people and killed more than 350 injured in 2015, sowing fear in the country.

This series of tributes comes barely two weeks after the end of the first phase of the trial, where more than 350 civil parties have retraced at the bar the course of this apocalyptic evening.

Post-traumatic stress, guilt of the survivor, persistent gap with the rest of society ... For a month, the testimonies of the victims and their relatives revealed the indelible scars and the extent of the psychological damage of these attacks on hundreds of lives broken.

To face the rest of the hearing, which must continue until the end of May, "people feel that we have to stick together," sums up Arthur Dénouveaux.

“Sharing all these experiences at the helm also increased the feeling of belonging to a meaningful community.

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"Solidarity"

Hence an even stronger need to participate in commemorations, "the only time when a collective catharsis can take place", adds this survivor of the Bataclan. This year, his association registers about fifty additional participants in the ceremony that it organizes at the town hall of the 11th arrondissement, after the various tributes.


"It will do us good to meet again and do a little" calinotherapy "," says Stéphanie Zarev, another survivor of the Bataclan.

"The trial undoubtedly reinforced the need to be together", confirms Philippe Duperron, president of the other association of victims, 13onze15 Fraternité et Truth.

“In the courtroom, there were looks, outstretched hands, we felt a lot of solidarity.

“Her organization also has more registrants than usual for the lunch it is organizing after the official ceremony.

"A marker of the great shared narrative that is built during the trial"

This year, "the commemoration is a marker of the great shared narrative that is currently being constructed at the trial", observes historian Denis Peschanski, co-head of the "November 13 Program", a vast research project that studies evolution. of the memory of the attacks over ten years. The audience and its transcription in the press "influence the collective memory of the French" and allowed "to complete the puzzle with pieces that we did not yet know", he notes.

Its research, carried out with a representative sample of the French population, shows that beyond the carnage of the Bataclan, the trial notably "brought back the places of November 13th in their entirety", thanks in particular to the testimonies of the victims. the Stade de France and the terraces, which the general public gradually tended to forget.

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