France marks 10 years since Paris' deadliest peacetime attacks in silence and ceremony

Paris — Sophie Dias fought back tears outside the Stade de France Thursday as she described living with what she called “a void that never closes” since the night her father became the first person killed in France’s deadliest peacetime attack, a night that still scars Paris and shapes the country 10 years on.

On Nov. 13, 2015, coordinated terrorist assaults turned the capital into a theater of blood and calamity: gunfire on café terraces, explosions at a stadium, a massacre at the Bataclan concert hall.

The attacks killed 132 people, including two survivors who later died by suicide, and hundreds more were wounded. Many families now measure time as “before” and “after.” The night hardened France’s security reflexes while deepening a reflex of solidarity that has endured a decade later