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French Prime Minister Jean Castex boards the Paris-Nice night train in the French capital. The service is resuming after a pause of more than three years. The journey is just over a thousand kilometres and the train is expected to arrive at 9:11am on Friday. IMAGES
Paris, Nov 13 (EFE), (Camera: Mohammed Badra).- France on Friday marked the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris attacks with solemn ceremonies paying tribute to the 130 victims.It comes at a time when the county is back in a state of high alert over recent terrorist attacks.The Paris attacks, claimed by the Islamic State terror organization, began outside the Stade de France when three suicide bombers blew themselves up, claiming one victim, just as a football match between France and Germany got underway.Another group of Islamic State terrorists then launched opened fire on bars and terraces in the center of the French capital, killing dozens and causing mass panic. They then headed to the Bataclan music venue, where they killed 90 people in the crowd that had come to watch American rock band Eagles of Death Metal.FOOTAGE OF PARIS ON FRIDAY.
Thousands of people gather in central Paris to pay homage to the teacher decapitated two days before for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo participate in a ceremony honoring victims at the Le Carillon bar and the Petit Cambodge restaurant as France marks two years since Islamic State jihadists killed 130 people in a series of attacks in and around the capital. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pay homage to victims at the La Bonne Bière bar, site of one of the attacks by Islamic State jihadists that killed 130 people in and around the capital two years ago. IMAGES