Timeline of 2015 attacks as Paris trial set to begin
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Thibault Camus
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, rescue workers help a woman after an attack by Islamic State militants, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months.
Jacques Brinon
FILE - In this Nov.13, 2015 file photo, medics stand by victims in a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months.
Michel Euler
FILE - In this Nov.13, 2015 file photo, spectators invade the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after the international friendly soccer France against Germany, in Saint Denis, outside Paris. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.
Thibault Camus
FILE - In this Friday Nov. 13, 2015 file photo a woman is evacuated from the Bataclan theater after a shooting in Paris.
Thibault Camus
FILE - In this Nov.13, 2015 file photo, medics stand by victims in a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months.
Jerome Delay
FILE - In this Friday Nov. 13, 2015 file photo a victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris.
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FILE - This undated file photo released Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, by French Police shows 26-year old Salah Abdeslam, who is wanted by police in connection with recent terror attacks in Paris, as police investigations continue. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — Salah Abdeslam, the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months.
Michel Euler
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2015 file photo bullet holes and smashed windows are pictured on the back side of the house after an intervention of security forces against a group of extremists in Saint-Denis, near Paris.
Francois Mori
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2015 file photo police officers take up positions in Saint Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.
Francois Mori
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2015 file photo armed police operate in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.
Christophe Ena
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2015 file photo police forces arrest a man in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months.
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FILE - In this Friday March 18, 2016 file framegrab taken from VTM, Salah Abdeslam, centre, is arrested by police and bundled into a police vehicle during a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium. Belgian prosecutors confirmed Wednesday April 27, 2016 that Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was handed over to French authorities. BELGIUM OUT
Michel Spingler
FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo smoke billows from the Zaventem Airport in Brussels after an explosion there. Bombs struck the Brussels airport and one of the city's metro stations, killing and wounding dozens of people, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats.
Martin Meissner
FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo people holding a banner reading "I am Brussels" behind flowers and candles to mourn for the victims at Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels. Bombs exploded at the Brussels airport and one of the city's metro stations Tuesday, killing and wounding scores of people, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert
FILE - In this April 8, 2016 file photo police investigate an area where terror suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested earlier today, in Brussels. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed a fugitive suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks was arrested in Belgium on Friday, after a raid Belgian authorities said was linked to the deadly March 22 Brussels bombings. The suspect, Mohamed Abrini, is believed to be the mysterious "man in the hat" who escaped the double bombing at Brussels airport, but further investigation is needed to determine Abrini is the third suspect of the airport attack.
PARIS (AP) — The 2015 attacks in Paris killed 130 people and wounded hundreds of others. A trial begins Wednesday of 20 men accused of having roles in the carnage.
The attacks were carefully planned and simultaneous across the French capital.
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September-November 2015: Two apartments and a house in Belgium are rented under false identities to prepare and coordinate the attacks. Salah Abdeslam rents two cars in Belgium to drive to France.
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Nov. 13, 2015
— 9:16 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. Two suicide bombers detonate themselves outside the national stadium just north of Paris after failing to enter it. A security guard and both bombers die.
— 9:24 p.m. to 9:36 p.m. Three shootings take place at different restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondissement of Paris. 39 people die.
— 9:41 p.m. A suicide bomber detonates his vest by another restaurant, kills no one but wounds two.
— 9:47 p.m. Three gunmen storm the Bataclan concert hall, killing 90.
— 9:53 p.m. A suicide bomber detonates his vest near the national stadium. He is the only one killed.
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Nov. 14, 2015
— 12:12 a.m. Police special forces enter the Bataclan, two terrorists blow themselves up, one is killed by police.
— Early morning: Salah Abdeslam, who had dropped the stadium bombers off and whose brother was one of the restaurant attackers, flees to Belgium.
— 11:42 a.m. The Islamic State group claims the responsibility for the attacks as retaliation against France for “insulting (the) Prophet” and air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
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— Nov. 17-18 : Police raid a house in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, where two men involved in the attacks are hidden. One of the men detonates his explosive vest, and they and a woman with them die.
— March 18, 2016: Salah Abdeslam is captured in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, Belgium.
— March 22, 2016: Three suicide bombers connected to the November 2015 Paris attacks kill 32 people and injure more than 300 in Brussels.
— April 8: Mohamed Abrini, who was involved in the Paris attacks and Brussels bombings, is arrested in Anderlecht outside Brussels.
— Sept. 8, 2021: The trial of the Nov. 13, 2015, Paris attacks opens in Paris. A total of 20 men are named as defendants. Abrini, Abdeslam and 12 others are set to appear. Five of the defendants are presumed dead and one is on the run.
— May 25, 2022: The judges are expected to give their verdict.
