Associated Press reporter Jerome Pugmire remembers the moment Islamic State group members targeted Stade de France while he was covering the France-Germany game.

He recalls hearing loud noises that sounded like fireworks, and at full-time everyone gathered on the field.

Ten years on, survivors of the Paris attacks struggle to cope with the trauma as France prepares to pay tribute Thursday to the victims of the assaults that left more than 130 people dead and more than 400 injured.

On Nov. 13, 2015, nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II.

They targeted fans at the Stade de France stadium and cafe-goers, ending with a bloodbath in the Bataclan, killing 130 people.

Two survivors who later took their own life as a consequence of the physical and mental trauma also have been recognized as victims.

Thursday’s main ceremony is to take place at a newly created memorial garden by the Paris City Hall in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, survivors and families of victims.

Macron also will lay wreaths on the sites of the attacks before the garden event.

Parisians are invited to put candles, flowers and written notes on the city’s Republic Plaza and the Eiffel Tower will be lit in the colors of the French flag at night.