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Paris attacks: Who were the victims of France's worst-ever terrorist attack

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November 16, 2015 - 4:07PM

Here are the faces of some of the victims of France's deadly terrorist attack.

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Valentin Ribet

 

Valentin Ribet, a 26-year-old anti-corruption lawyer and graduate from the London School of Economics, was named as the first victim of Paris attacks. He was killed at the Bataclan Concert Hall. On Sunday morning, the London School of Economics confirmed his death on Twitter.

Guillaume Decherf

​Guillaume Decherf, 43, a French music journalist, died at the Bataclan. He wrote for Les Inrocks magazine, which confirmed his death and said Mr Decherf had written about the Eagles of Death Metal in the magazine's October 28 issue and had announced their November 13 concert.

Michelli Jaimez

Michelli, 27, was born in Mexico but moved to France in 2008 to work and study. According to Mexican media, her Italian boyfriend Filo, a chamber musician, had recently proposed to her. Michelli was in the restaurant La Belle Equipe at the time of the attacks.

Thomas Ayad

Universal Music Group executive Thomas Ayad also died at the concert hall. Amiens Sports Club, the amateur hockey club of which he was a member, confirmed his death on its Facebook page.

Sahbi Kheir-Eddine

Sahbi Kheir-Eddine, from Algeria, was born on February 10, 1986, in Algiers. He was the son of Hemana and Abada Rabea.

Elif Dogan and Milko Jozic

Elif Dogan, 26, originally from Turkey, had been living in Paris with her Belgian husband, Milko Jozi, an engineer, for only a few months.

Mathieu Hoche

 

Mathieu Hoche, 38, was a technician from the France24 news channel and was also killed at Bataclan. A friend tweeted that Hoche loved rock 'n' roll.

Asta Diakite

Asta Diakite, a cousin of French footballer Lassana Diarra, who was playing at the Stade de France on Friday night, died during the attacks that evening. Diarra confirmed the news on Twitter, describing his cousin as "a big sister to me", but did not say where she was killed.

Houda and Halima Ben Khalifa Saadi

The two Tunisian sisters, who were living in France, were in Paris celebrating a birthday. 

The women, aged 34 and 35, were from the Tunisian town of Menzel Bourguiba but had been living in Creusot in central France, according Tunisia's foreign ministry.

The ministry said they were celebrating in one of the restaurants targeted by the gunmen.

Manuel Colaco Dias

Manuel Colaco Dias, 63, who had lived in France for 45 years with his wife and two children, was killed near the Stade de France, authorities confirmed. 

Manuel was from the small town of Rosario, in Portugal, which he would visit three times a year. "He was a friend of everybody. He came here to Rosario a lot and he would speak a lot. Ninety per cent of the time it was about football, because he was a huge sporting fan," friend Jose Fernandes said in a TV interview. "The rest was about French culture. Everybody is in shock, he knew everybody. He was a brilliant person in everything he did."

Mohamed Amine Benmbarek

Mohamed Amine Benmbarek, a newlywed, was dining at Le Carillon bar-cafe when he was killed, according to the Moroccan Times. His wife, Maya, suffered three gunshot wounds and is reportedly in a critical condition in hospital.

Amine Benmbarek was an architect and teacher at the National School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville.  One his former professors paid tribute to Mr Benmbarek on Facebook, remembering him as a "young Muslim intellectual, who blew us away with the amazing graduate study he conducted on the pilgrimage to Mecca".

Precilia Correia

Precilia Correia, aged 35, died with her boyfriend Manu Perez at the Bataclan. 

A friend posted on Facebook: "I have no words to tell you all the pain that your departure causes me."

Juan Alberto Gonzalez Garrido

Juan, aged 29, was was in the Bataclan with his wife, who escaped unhurt. 

Juan, born in Spain, worked as an electrical engineer at France's state-owned power company. He had spent much of his working life in nuclear research. For four years he had been part of the International Youth Nuclear Congress. For six years he had been a member of the board of "Nuclear Youth", the commission of the Spanish Nuclear Society.

Luis Felipe Zschoche Valle

Musician Luis Felipe Zschoche Valle, 33, had lived in Paris with his French wife for eight years, Chile's foreign ministry said. He was killed at the Bataclan theatre.

He was a singer and guitarist with the Paris-based rock band Captain Americano. Fans of his music paid tribute to Mr Valle on the band's Facebook page, where a photo shows him on stage dressed in a captain's uniform.

Lola Salines

Lola Salines also died in the Bataclan attack. Her father, George Salines, announced her death on Twitter after attempting to use social media to find his daughter.

Elsa Delplace 

Chilean Elsa Veronique Delplace, 35, was with her mother Patricia San Martin Nunez, 61, at the Bataclan theatre, Chile's foreign ministry said. They were both killed.

Ms Delplace and her mother were the grandniece and niece, respectively, of the the Chilean ambassador to Mexico, Ricardo Nunez. According to CNN, Ms Delplace worked at management consultancy group Manegere, where her colleagues praised "her love of life, her love for others [and] that permanent smile she wore on her face".

Delplace had at least one child, a son.

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