French President Emmanuel Macron spoke Thursday at the inauguration of a memorial garden dedicated to the 130 people killed in a terrorist attack in Paris 10 years ago.
The event at the new "Jardin du 13 novembre 2015" garden commemorated the night of terror on November 13, 2015 that scarred and reshaped France.
Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II.
They targeted fans at the Stade de France stadium and cafe-goers and ending with a bloodbath in the Bataclan, killing 130 people.
Two survivors who later took their own life as consequence of the physical and mental trauma also have been recognized as victims.
The new memorial garden, designed with the contributions of survivors and relatives of people who died in the attacks, evokes the six sites of the attacks with the names of the victims engraved on steles.
Macron told those gathered for the event that "we cannot give meaning to November 13th."
"But we can give meaning to November 14th, to each of your tomorrows, to each of your steps. When put together, they tell a story of courage, solidarity, and life."
Macron and first lady Brigitte Macron — joined by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo — toured all the attack sites, talking to survivors and relatives of those killed, laying wreaths and standing in silence for the dead and hundreds more injured.
So numerous were the victims of the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall that it took four full minutes to read out all their names.

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