Paris Muslim leaders mark 6 years since Bataclan attacks

The Paris Mosque is marking the six-year day connected Friday of the onslaught astatine the Bataclan performance hallway successful the French superior that killed 90 people.

Muslim leaders laid a wreath astatine the venue successful Paris’ 11th arondissement, 1 time earlier a broader commemoration is owed to instrumentality place. The commemoration is occurring a time aboriginal due to the fact that of the Eid al-Adha festival.

“It is to amusement our solidarity with the victims that we person offered to conscionable present this Friday, which is for Muslims an important day,” said Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the Paris Mosque rector. “We wanted the imams to travel to conscionable the relatives of the victims, stock a infinitesimal of solidarity and manus implicit a wreath of flowers successful representation of each the victims of the Bataclan, each without exception.”

The day comes with renewed absorption successful France, amid a proceedings into the November 2015 Paris panic attacks. In the bloody events, jihadists detonated termination vests and opened occurrence connected cafes successful the French superior earlier massacring spectators of a performance astatine the Bataclan, sidesplitting a full of 130 people.

On Friday, victims’ associations besides attended the site, saying it was a amusement of inclusion and to show that nary assemblage indispensable beryllium vilified.

“(It) is simply a grounds of existent brotherhood that crosses religions and crosses the full of humanity,” said Philippe Duperron, the president of the “13onze15” association, who came to the tract Friday. Duperron mislaid his lad Thomas successful the Bataclan and has since been warring for consciousness and justice.

“We are highly delicate to this motion that is being made contiguous astatine the inaugural of the Paris Mosque rector with the assemblage of imams,” helium said.

All 9 attackers died during the 2015 attacks but a would-be attacker whose explosives vest malfunctioned and others accused of helping them are presently connected proceedings successful Paris.