Throughout Paris, French flags fluttered in windows in uncharacteristic displays of patriotism.
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Members of parliament, military officials, former French presidents and prime ministers, as well as the leaders of different political parties attended the ceremony, held under tight security.
“Today the nation as a whole, this living strength, mourns the victims: 130 names, 130 lives taken away, 130 destinies usurped, 130 laughs that we will no longer hear, 130 voices that will never speak again”, Holland said.
Hollande promised families of the victims that he will do everything to destroy the “army of fanatics” responsible. Before a speech from French President François Hollande, the names of all 130 victims were read aloud.
France’s military provided the only images of Friday’s ceremony, and no one without an invitation was permitted inside.
Some of the hundreds of people wounded in the attacks attended in wheelchairs and were carried on stretchers.
Hollande entered the Invalides alone, and sat alone in a simple chair in front of the assembled crowd.
The ringleader behind the November 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation.
An unidentified woman grieves at the coffin of France’s Aurelie de Peretti, who was killed at the Bataclan concert hall during the Paris attacks, Thursday, Nov. 26 2015 in Saint-Tropez, French Riviera.
He vowed that France would respond with more music, concerts and sporting events, after some of the attacks targeted a concert venue and a stadium.
Belgian broadcaster RTBF said they were the brother and father of the man charged.
Putin said the Syrian army was a “natural partner in the fight against terrorism”, while Hollande reiterated the view that Assad “has no place in the future of Syria”.
This theory may have some credence with French police discovering what they believe to be an abandoned suicide bomb vest in a dust bin in Paris this evening. And we will commune in the best of emotions, without being troubled by our differences, our origines, our colors, our convictions, our beliefs, our religions. We will use our anger to defend freedom, every single day.
Belgium on Tuesday also issued an worldwide arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, 30, who was filmed along with Salah Abdeslam at a petrol station in Ressons, France on the motorway to Paris, in a Renault Clio which was later used in the attacks.
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Some of the attackers – including suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who died in a police raid in Paris last week – had lived in Brussels.
