France marks decade since Paris attacks

The bells of Notre Dame rang out on Thursday to honour the 130 people killed in jihadist shootings and suicide bombings in Paris 10 years ago, in France's worst-ever peacetime attacks.

- STORY: FRANCESCO FONTEMAGGI / AFP

People gather outside Notre-Dame to mourn after a terror attack killed 131 people in Paris, on Nov 15.

On Nov 13, 2015, assailants from the Islamic State group killed around 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall, where the US band Eagles of Death Metal were playing.

They ended the lives of dozens more at Parisian restaurants and cafes, and one person near the Stade de France football stadium, where spectators were watching France play Germany.

At a ceremony in central Paris, first responders slowly read out the names of those killed that Friday night and of two survivors who later took their own lives.

"Each of your pains is senseless, unjust, unbearable," President Emmanuel Macron said, addressing relatives and survivors of the assaults, which also wounded hundreds.

He praised police and medics who responded, but also "the woman who opened her door to 20 injured people", and "the man who ran down into the street with his first aid kit after hearing gunshots".

Mr Macron pledged France would do everything to avoid any similar attack.

"For those who take up arms against France, the response will be uncompromising," he said.