The people of Paris have come together in a day of mourning to mark the one year anniversary of the Islamic terror attacks which claimed the lives of 130 people. French President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited each site targeted by nine Islamist extremists on the night of November 13, 2015. In silence, Hollande pulled French flags from plaques commemorating the victims who died at each site. The names of the victims were also read out at each site. The Stade de France, where France was playing Germany, bore witness to the first attack by suicide bombers, resulting in the death of Manuel Dias, a Portugese immigrant to France. At the commemorative event Dias’ son Michael said his father was “living proof that integration is possible, necessary” to end the violence carried out by those who felt excluded. Learning to live again following the death of his father at the hands of terrorists was “a personal challenge, but it concerns us all,” Dias said, crediting his father, who came to France at 18, with life lessons like the need for education. “It is by knowledge, by intelligence that the children of tomorrow can stop humiliating themselves as cannon fodder