France on Thursday solemnly marked the 10th anniversary of the deadliest peacetime attacks in Paris, remembering 132 victims and honoring the resilience of survivors and families.

Sophie Dias stood near the Stade de France, fighting back tears as she recalled the night her father became the first person killed in the coordinated assaults of November 13, 2015. “The absence is immense, the shock is intact, and the incomprehension remains,” she said, describing a “void that never closes” a decade later.

President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron joined her in a wreath-laying and minute of silence. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also attended. Officials followed a “families first” approach, placing relatives closest to commemorative plaques at each attack site, including cafés in the 10th and 11th arrondissements and the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed.

At Place de la République, Parisians lit candles and laid flowers, recreating the spontaneous memorials of 2015. A new November 13 Memory Garden, designed with victims’ associations, will open opposite City Hall, featuring granite blocks engraved with the names of the dead. The Eiffel Tower will again glow in the national colors, and church bells, including Notre-Dame’s, will ring in tribute.

The attacks reshaped France’s security landscape, leading to stronger counterterrorism measures. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez cautioned that the threat remains “very high,” though large-scale attacks are less likely today. Survivors, such as Arthur Dénouveaux of the Life for Paris association, said the anniversary reopens old wounds: “You never fully heal. You just learn to live differently.”

Tributes emphasized remembrance, honoring responders, and protecting everyday joys — football, music, and shared meals — that the attackers sought to destroy. The commemorations aimed for “grief without spectacle, memory with room for the living,” officials said.