Six years after the events and nearly three weeks after the end of the trial, Paris this week commemorates the deadly attacks that took place between 7 and 9 January 2015.
The ceremonies are "placed under the sign of sobriety, dignity and meditation", the city explained.
"6 years later, Paris remembers and pays tribute to the victims of the January 2015 attacks. Let’s never forget them", said socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo on Twitter.
6 ans après, rue Nicolas Appert.
— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) January 7, 2021
Paris se souvient. pic.twitter.com/YTxh2AoD41
The tributes began on Thursday morning in front of the commemorative plaques unveiled in 2016, in the presence of Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and former president François Hollande, as well as survivors and relatives of the victims.
The arrangements were designed "in accordance with the wishes of the families", "taking into account health measures and in order to preserve the privacy" of the people present.
The victims include 12 staff members from Charlie Hebdo, a French policewoman who tried to stop the attackers and four Jewish men killed at the Hyper Cacher market near Porte de Vincennes.
The Charlie Hebdo attacks trial spread over three months of extraordinary hearings last year and the special court in Paris handed down its verdict on 16 December.
All 14 suspects received guilty verdicts for helping brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly plan and carry out attacks that claimed 17 lives over three days in January 2015.
