Vice President Kamala Harris lays flowers to grant the victims of the onslaught connected Paris astatine the Carillon Caf successful Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. On Nov. 13, 2015, a bid of coordinated violent attacks occurred done Paris sidesplitting a full of 130 people, 13 astatine Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge cafes. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

PARIS – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers astatine a Paris memorial to people the day Saturday of Islamic State attacks that killed 130 radical successful the French superior six years ago.

Her halt astatine the Le Carillon bar, 1 of aggregate nightspots and sites attacked by gunmen and termination bombers connected Nov. 13, 2015, closed retired a four-day fence-mending travel to France.

Accompanied by her husband, Doug Emhoff, Harris laid a bouquet of ivory flowers astatine the ft of a victims' memorial and spoke to radical wrong the bar. On its counter, 13 candles successful the French colors of blue, achromatic and reddish had been lit.

Nine Islamic State gunmen and termination bombers struck wrong minutes of 1 different successful 2015, targeting the nationalist shot stadium, cafes filled with people, and the Bataclan performance hallway — tract of the worst carnage with 90 dead. It was the deadliest unit to onslaught France since World War II and among the worst panic attacks to deed the West.

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This year's commemorations travel amid a mammoth proceedings successful Paris for 20 men accused of carrying retired the bloodshed oregon of assisting the attacks. The proceedings opened successful September and has heard weeks of searing testimony from survivors and archetypal responders. Six of the accused are being tried successful absentia.

French officials besides held a bid of commemorations Saturday astatine the onslaught sites.

Harris' travel was portion of a sustained effort by Washington to mend relations with France, America’s oldest ally, that were rocked by a secretly negotiated U.S.-British submarine woody with Australia that led to a anterior woody with France being scrapped.

Harris said connected Saturday earlier her departure that the "very productive" travel would beryllium followed with much work.

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“This travel was about, of course, making wide the long-standing relationship, but besides that arsenic we spell into a caller epoch for the world, that our enactment volition continue,” she said. "We bash it with a consciousness of optimism, but a consciousness of beardown condemnation that the concern betwixt the United States and France remains and volition proceed to beryllium a precise beardown one.”

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