FRANCE COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF DEADLY PARIS ATTACKS 10 YEARS ON

France paid an emotional tribute on Thursday to 130 people killed 10 years ago during a rampage by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers targeting cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.

The attacks were the deadliest on French soil since World War Two, scarring the national psyche and prompting emergency security measures, many of which are now embedded in law.

The assault on November 13, 2015, began with suicide bomb blasts that killed one person, bus driver Manuel Dias, outside the Stade de France sports stadium and continued with gunmen opening fire at five other locations in central Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron was among officials who paid their respects to Dias and the other victims with a minute of silence and the laying of wreaths before the Stade de France.