The Paris Attacks, 2 Years Later: Quiet Remembrance and Lasting Impact
Supported by By Alissa J. Rubin and Elian Peltier PARIS — France paid homage on Monday to the victims of the coordinated terrorist attacks in and around Paris two years ago
that left 130 dead and more than 600 wounded, a national trauma that reshaped the country’s balance between security and civil liberties.
Under tight police protection, President Emmanuel Macron
and former President François Hollande, who was in office at the time of the attacks, traversed the route taken by the attackers on the balmy Friday evening of Nov. 13, 2015.
In 2016, the French Parliament approved another sweeping law
that allows the police and prosecutors to use electronic eavesdropping technology previously limited to the intelligence services, including hidden cameras and access to electronic data.
The attempted attacks have gone on despite a two-year state of emergency
that gave the police extraordinary powers to detain people even if there was not enough evidence to charge them.
Despite those successes, three people have been killed by terrorists in France in
2017: two civilians in Marseille and one police officer on the Champs-Élysées.
But, he said, the threat had changed from a large network closely directed by the Islamic State to "little groups here and there in our country, who have plans to carry out violence
but do not have links with each other." Eloise Stark and Daphné Anglès contributed reporting.