British singer Sting reopened the Bataclan - the revered Paris concert hall - with a charity concert marking the first anniversary of the bloody attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Many survivors of the Bataclan assault, where some 90 people were killed, attended the concert on Saturday, the dominant event in a weekend of otherwise low-key commemorations.
The coordinated suicide bomb and gun attacks in various parts of Paris on November 13 last year also targeted bars, restaurants, and a sports stadium.
"We will not forget them," the British rock star Sting told the crowd in French after a minute's silence. He began the emotionally charged concert with his song "Fragile", singing: "Nothing comes from violence and nothing will."
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