As the families of the victims wanted, the tribute ceremony did not give rise to any speaking.
Le Monde with AFP
As every year, the same ceremony was repeated by three times. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, paid tribute on Friday 7 January to the victims of jihadist attacks against the weekly Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Hide store, in Paris, seven years after Attacks.
In addition to Gérald Darmanin and Anne Hidalgo, the President of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, and the police prefect, Didier Lallement, were also present.
All first arrested in front of the 10th, Street Nicolas-Appert, former premises of the satirical weekly, where the Saïd and Chérif Kouachi brothers shot 11 people on January 7, 2015. Among the victims, emblematic figures. of Charlie, like his director and draftsman, caricaturists Cabu, Wolinki, honored, Tignous and the economist Bernard Maris.
Then, a few meters away, on the boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where the police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet was killed by the Kouachi brothers while trying to stop them in their flight.
Finally, they went from Vincennes, in front of the hide supermarket, target on January 9, 2015 of an attack perpetrated by another jihadist, Amedy Coulibaly, who killed three customers and an Jewish employee.
In accordance with the vow of the families of the victims, no speeches took place on the three places of recollection: after reading the names of the dead, the filing of sheaves and a minute of silence, the Marseillaise sounded in The Paris Cold. “Never forget them,” said Anne Hidalgo on Twitter.
It was 7 years ago. This Friday, Paris remembers and pay tribute to the victims of the attacks of January 2015.
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