‘They Wanted Death, We Raised Life’ – Macron on 10 Years Since Paris Attacks | APT - video Dailymotion

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an emotional and powerful speech on the 10-year anniversary of the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks. Honoring the victims, heroes, and first responders, Macron reflected on the horrors of that night, the resilience of the French people, and the ongoing fight against terrorism. He emphasized national unity, memory, vigilance, and the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity that terrorists sought to destroy. #france #macron #apt

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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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