France marks 10 years since Paris attacks upended country
Parisians marked ten years since the deadly November 2015 attacks that upended French society.
![People lay flowers and light candles in tribute to the 130 civilians killed in the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks at a temporary memorial at Place de la Republique, in Paris, on November 12, 2025. [Joel Saget/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AFP__20251113__83W78CF__v1__HighRes__FranceParisAttacksAnniversary_cropped-1763060446.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Parisians marked ten years since the deadly November 2015 attacks that upended French society.
![People lay flowers and light candles in tribute to the 130 civilians killed in the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks at a temporary memorial at Place de la Republique, in Paris, on November 12, 2025. [Joel Saget/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AFP__20251113__83W78CF__v1__HighRes__FranceParisAttacksAnniversary_cropped-1763060446.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)




![With police on high alert, streets will be cut off to cars and pedestrians around the Palais de Justice courthouse on an island in central Paris, with the surrounding banks of the Seine also off-limits [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-07T142613Z_1658223178_RC22LP970SXP_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-SECURITY-ATTACKS-TRIAL.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![The police patrol at the Place de la Republique as the public gather in memory of the 130 victims of the Paris terrorist attacks on November 27 [Getty]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/50c14556fb05480f827883bf42fd773e_18.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![A replica of the Manneken-Pis statue is seen among flowers at a memorial for the victims of bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Brussels international airport of Zaventem, in Brussels [REUTERS]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/8ebaba70b08d435da49c04ab6e918ec8_18.jpeg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80)
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