00:00Here we are, 10 years later.
00:1510 years after the deadliest attacks France has ever known.
00:2010 years.
00:24But what do these 10 years weigh?
00:2611. The words weigh against the pain, the silences.
00:3212. What happened is certainly irreparable.
00:3913. And you have had days that were changed and days that were blind.
00:4614. Days of darkness and sleepless nights.
00:5115. Days when you had to pretend, when you had to
00:56hold on 15. Days when life seemed to return fleetingly,
01:07days that were impossible because the slightest sound,
01:09the slightest smell made you relive an identical past that was always present.
01:1316. The screams in the music, the blood on the asphalt, the smell of gunpowder, the bodies.
01:2417. Of lives hanging by the wrists, suspended in silence.
01:3218. The phones on the ground ringing in the void
01:38and displaying the names of loved ones that no one would ever answer.
01:4119. The anguish, the horror, the mourning.
01:5319. Those among you who have fallen, never to rise again.
01:5620. Those of you who got back up, wounded in your flesh and soul,
02:05often with the guilt of still being there.
02:0721. Those of you who were classified among the survivors,
02:1721. Those of you who were found that the death of death had simply chosen to strike more slowly or rather
02:20to warn, and who had to relive.
02:2222. Those who lost that day their child, their parents, their brothers, their sisters,
02:34their friends, the man or woman of their life.
02:3623. The father of their unborn little girl in their previous life.
02:4624. Body and heart in tatters, face sewn up and sewn back up,
02:57with this nagging question, why would?
02:5925. We want to find meaning in what happened.
03:0826. But each of your pains is senseless, unjust, unbearable.
03:1527. You have sometimes been told to return to normal life, but there is nothing normal about
03:22a life cut short in the prime of life, about a child who dies before his parents, about a baby
03:27who was born an orphan.
03:2828. There is nothing normal about this latent,
03:33throbbing pain that resurfaces each time another attack hits our soil.
03:3629. Children, adults,
03:41law enforcement officers, teachers, from Nice to Strasbourg, victims of terrorism once again.
03:4629. And we are thinking of them all tonight, with heavy hearts.
03:5330. In the aftermath of the attacks, you experienced the impossible normality.
04:0231. The impossible tranquility.
04:0630. Life is impossible and yet life.
04:1131. Those who hate will never cry out louder than those who love.
04:1831. And on the evening of November 13, the assassins found someone more courageous,
04:24more combative than
04:2531. The law enforcement officers who intervened, the mounted police at the Stade de France,
04:32the police officers from the Bataklan District, the two men from the BAC who, in a few minutes,
04:37opened fire and hit a terrorist, using a Kalashnikov rifle at the point.
04:4632. These men from the BAC-75, from the Search and Intervention Brigade,
04:50from the Support Raid, all those who sent messages of love to their families that evening,
04:54which they thought would be the last and who were ready for it.
04:5632.
05:02These police officers who intervened in the Alpha and Bravo columns to neutralize the attackers
05:07and who will be elevated to the Legion of Honor as a testimony of the special recognition of the nation.
05:1633. These municipal police officers who arrived before the others on the terraces,
05:20taking all the risks.
05:2133. These stewards who in St. Denire were there at the forefront and kept the doctors,
05:29nurses, and caregivers suddenly thrown into this war landscape the likes of which he had never thought possible.
05:3433. His first responders, miners, firefighters, elected officials, officers, members of the scientific
05:46police and forensic teams, all those who relentlessly tracked down the terrorist commando, each and
05:52every one of the cleaning staff, the passers-by, the waitresses and waiters, each in their place.
05:5633. The one who helped flush them out, the one who then helped, risking her life, to locate them, making the only choice that had to be made.
06:1134. Yes, the one to whom we owe an even greater debt of gratitude.
06:1835. Those men and women hidden amidst the lifeless bodies who silently held the hand of a stranger
06:25so that he would not drown in fear. 35. That man who twice crossed the Bataclan Auditorium
06:31when the gunfire broke out to open the side emergency exits. 36. And that other one who evacuated the singers
06:37and pushed them into a taxi. 36. That woman who opened her door to 20 bloodied people and so many others
06:45like her who opened more than their doors, their hearts. 37. That man who went out into the street
06:55with his first aid kit when he heard the gunshots, that man bare-chested because he had first used the
06:59materials in his first aid kit to make the garrows. 37. Then his belt, having nothing left, had taken off his
07:07shirt and torn it to pieces to continue saving. 38. And our state, which held Mr. President of the
07:18Republic, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Minister of the Interior, day and night. 39. And alongside you,
07:29the Prefects, all the state services, Madame Mayor of Paris, ladies and gentlemen elected officials,
07:35all united, unwavering. 39. Then our judicial services, magistrates, lawyers, clerks, all who
07:48held for all these years, and for so many months, the largest criminal hearing in our history,
07:52this trial, with hundreds of lawyers, thousands of civil parties. 39. And our associations who held,
08:03who stood up as you both described just now, with the support of the Interministerial Delegation for
08:13Assistance to Victims to make their voices heard so that no one was left behind. 39. And those
08:23thousands of French people who marched in the statue of the Republic covered with candles, flowers and words of
08:28love. 39. Yes. 40. The terrorists found much more courage than Paris held out. 40. You held out.
08:4540. France held out. 40. The Republic held on in the emergency. 40. Through fraternity, justice,
08:56truth, and love of life. 40. We held on, and each of us played our part.
09:1140. Your lives, which they had denied and reduced to the status of things,
09:14had now become our universal lives. 41. This Islamist terrorist did not want you individually.
09:27They did not want your children, they did not want your loved ones, they wanted France.
09:3441. They wanted us to be French.
09:3542. They wanted a way of being in the world tinged with roots and universalism.
09:4342. A world where women are equal to men.
09:4543. A world where we meet others in their differences.
09:4943. We consider each other openly, face to face.
09:5243. Where everyone can think what they want and say what they think, play the music that suits them,
09:5943. Express the faith that drives them or the lack of faith protected by secularism.
10:0344. A world where Voltaire vies with Moliere, a world of culture where people sing,
10:1145. Dance and love the theater.
10:1344. And when terrorists want to strike at democracy and
10:1945. It is France and Paris that they first target.
10:2345. That evening, they struck places of sport, conviviality and art,
10:3545. Places where souls mingle.
10:3645. Places of freedom.
10:4246. And it is because you are children of this free France,
10:4746. Because you came from it or because you were a foreigner on its soil that you fell.
10:5547. You came from 17 countries, but in the eyes of the murderers, you were all children of France.
11:0647. The day after the attack, the day after, a woman.
11:1248. With us tonight.
11:1348. Collected the belongings that the man of her life had been carrying.
11:1949. Among the papers in his wallet, his electoral card.
11:2649. And on Marianne's face, a drop of blood rolled down, like the trace of a tear.
11:3449. The missing women of November 13 are not
11:4350. They are not simply victims of hatred or a vague abstraction.
11:4549. Concepts have no hand.
11:5650. They were killed by terrorists who embody an Islamist ideology,
12:0051. Identified, active, structured in a network, in a zone of influence,
12:0451. With its codes and methods of action,
12:0651. Eager to undermine the vision of humanity that our country upholds through its history,
12:1051. Its present actions and its vision of the future.
12:1951. We have done everything to stem and curb this planned jihadism.
12:2252. But it is reborn in another internal form, insidious, less detectable, less predictable.
12:3252. At any time,
12:3552. Planned Islamist terrorism could be reborn in the Middle East,
12:3853. Central Asia, the Horn of Africa or elsewhere.
12:4353. And we are constantly vigilant in each of these places,
12:4654. And other forms of terrorism are emerging to which we will not yield.
12:4953. In the face of this,
12:5854. Our nation is the guarantor of the perpetual fight,
13:0154. Waged without ever denying our values of justice and freedom.
13:0454. It guarantees that everything will be done to prevent any new attacks and to punish
13:1255. Relentlessly those who would risk them.
13:1454. And in this decade, the nation has strengthened itself.
13:1955. Unprecedented measures were taken immediately.
13:2455. Declaring a state of emergency,
13:3055. Protecting our borders and then drafting laws that adapted the law to the state of the threat
13:3455. And allowed us to fight terrorism over the long term by protecting our civil liberties.
13:3955. Home visits, provision for the closure of places of worship,
13:4756. Protection perimeters, individual control and surveillance measures,
13:5056. All of which are barriers placed in the path of murderers.
13:5356. A program to deconstruct radical discourse
13:5956. To nip in the bud the transition to action and to prevent recidivism in prison.
14:0356. And I know how many of your associations, how many of you, participated in these actions.
14:1156. The human resources of the General Directorate for Internal Security have been increased by a third.
14:1857. These financial resources have been doubled.
14:2557. The staff of the General Directorate for External Security has been increased by a quarter.
14:2958. While a National Prison Intelligence Service was created in 2019.
14:3359. To further strengthen our intelligence services, we have created a National Coordination
14:37of Intelligence and the Fight Against Terrorism, a National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office,
14:4259. And are also strengthening our work with all European partners.
14:4559. Because terrorism knows no borders.
14:5359. We have therefore supported the European regulation on the removal of terrorist content online,
14:59which has now been adopted, and are working to wean terrorism from its financing.
15:0259. And we are relentlessly tracking down terrorists abroad, in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean,
15:10as well as on our soil, by preventing the flow of returnies from Syria and elsewhere and preventing abuses.
15:1559. Eighty-five attacks have been thwarted in ten years, including six this year.
15:30In the face of the onslaught, we have consolidated the values of a nation that we have been building for centuries
15:35and that we will never finish defending.
15:3759. And we must tirelessly continue this work of passing on to our children and education.
15:4560. We must tirelessly continue to build Republicans.
15:5361. Unfortunately, no one can guarantee that the attacks will end.
16:0461. But we can guarantee that for those who take up arms against France, the response will be uncompromising.
16:1262. That all of us will continue this fight against terrorism relentlessly and that we will continue
16:19the fight for our youth with the same strength.
16:2162. That not a single one of the systems and rights that you and your associations have built will
16:3163. Be in vain.
16:3663. That not a single life will be forgotten.
16:3964. That not a single life will be forgotten.
16:4264. That not a drop of your tears will be lost.
16:4464. No.
16:4864. There is no meaning.
16:5164. No justification for your pain, and there never will be.
16:5864. We cannot give meaning
17:0365. To November 13.
17:0665.
17:0765. But we can give meaning to November 14, to each of your tomorrows, to each of your steps which,
17:1665. Taken end to end, tell us a story of courage, of mutual aid, of life.
17:2465. A story of vigilance because at all hours of the day, a part of the nation remains on the lookout from sunrise to sunset,
17:3165. Intent on the safety of its children.
17:3866. A story of remembrance with our terrorism memorial museum, located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris,
17:4566. Which will pass on to future generations the history of terrorist violence,
17:4966. Its victims, and the reactions of our societies, focused as much on the past as on the future.
17:5466. A story of hope.
17:5966. A story of hope.
18:0166. A spring of Cherito fraternity.
18:0367. A spring of Cherito fraternity.
18:0667. A garden of blue flowers, white flowers, and red baw that brings us together around the names of those who fell,
18:1667. A symbol of the strength of our nation which, on the soil of memory, unites, stands together and always rises to the occasion.
18:2368. Yes, united and together.
18:3169. It is through our strength in fighting these battles that we will rise to the occasion of tomorrow,
18:3969. Live again even stronger, carrying what we are and what you wanted to destroy.
18:4369. Each of your steps.
18:4769. Each of your days for the past 10 years has been
18:5369. The spirit of resistance.
19:0169. Through it, death is uncrowned, your lives raised.
19:0869. The love of France consecrated.
19:1469. He wanted to sow death. You have elevated life.
19:2069. He wanted to paralyze us with fear.
19:2369. They have increased our vigilance, our love of our values, our appetite for life.
19:3069. He wanted to divide and we are united.
19:3569. They wanted to erase.
19:3869. They reminded us that our struggles were universal.
19:4269. And we are here and we will stand by your side tomorrow.
19:4769. For you.
19:5269. For those who are no longer with us.
19:5569. For their children.
19:5869. Long live the Republic. Long live France.
20:1370. Long live France.
20:1769. Long live France.
20:2270. Long live France.
20:3869. Long live France.
20:4270. Long live France.
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