Neither Hollande or Hidalgo spoke at the ceremony, but veteran French rock star Johnny Hallyday, accompanied only by a guitar, sang a song about the march on January 11 previous year, which brought out the biggest crowds in Paris since the liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany in 1944.
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Last week marked one year since Islamic extremists killed 16 people in the offices of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” and in a Kosher market.
Even the fingerprints aren’t telling the whole story: Investigators still are trying to determine the identity of a knife-wielding man who Paris police shot dead this week on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, with evidence giving conflicting clues, Paris’ prosecutor said Friday.
We asked him about the kind of psychological issues people involved in the attacks were still suffering from, and what kind of impact the attack has had on the psyche of France.
Paris. French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced visit to the main mosque in Paris on Sunday, a year after jihadist attacks in the French capital, AFP reported.
Hollande responded to the November massacre by vowing to crush Isis, and French jets have been bombing the group in Syria and Iraq.
The name Ali Sallah was not known to intelligence services, so “We will need to establish the identity – know which is the real identity”, Molins said.
Mosques across France opened their doors to the public over the weekend in a bid by the Muslim community to build bridges, following the series of terror attacks that rocked France past year.
The man who tried to attack a police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper killings had travelled through several countries, including Luxembourg, according to France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Sunday.
At the president’s side was Paris Mayor Anne Hildago, and together they unveiled a plaque in the city’s famous Place de la Republique to pay permanent homage to the victims.
Abdeslam crossed into Belgium on November 14 and Belgian authorities believe he hid out in a Brussels apartment used to make bombs for the Paris attacks before moving on.
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He laid a wreath at the square where a 10 metre-high oak tree was planted and a one-minute silence held.
