Attacks of 13-November: four years later, a garden of remembrance in memory of the victims

A "garden of remembrance" in tribute to the victims of 13-November. The Paris Council voted Tuesday, November 12 the creation of a place of commemoration whose location remains to be defined, in memory of the 130 victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015 occurred in the capital and Saint-Denis.

On the proposal of the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the groups elected to the Council voted unanimously in favor of this "memorial project", on the eve of the commemorations of the fourth anniversary of the attacks.

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"To gather, to testify and to keep the memory of the victims"

"Different places will be proposed to the two associations, 13 eleven 15 and Life for Paris, with the agreement of the borough mayors concerned," details the wish of the Paris executive.

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This vote thus gives the City of Paris the right to "continue to support this project of the associations and to continue the accompaniment of the victims", to engage "more feasibility studies (...) once the implantation stopped".

The "Garden of Remembrance, accessible to the victims and their families but also to all Parisians" will "gather, testify and keep the memory of the victims" and "will also play a pedagogical role and be a place of life in tribute to all the victims ", according to the City of Paris.

The difficult work of reconstruction

Four years after the tragedy, many victims say they are on the road to reconstruction. But for many of them, injured or witnesses, the trial that is looming could be a new test.

Each case is different to rebuild itself, repeat specialists. But "anyone who has psychological stability without any traumatic antecedent, especially in his childhood, will come out or has already emerged, or 70% of victims," ​​says Gérard Lopez, Honorary President of the Institute Victimology, which has welcomed 180 people since the attack.

On November 13, 2015, nine men attacked the French capital and Saint-Denis at several points, near the Stade de France, at restaurant terraces and in the Bataclan concert hall, leaving 130 dead and more than 350 wounded. These attacks had been claimed by the Islamic State organization.

Wednesday, a ceremony is planned in the morning in the presence of the Mayor of Paris and the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, and relatives of the victims, before the commemorative plaques unveiled in 2016.

With AFP