On 7 January 2025, ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, an official commemoration took place outside the magazine's former offices in Paris's 11th arrondissement. Security kept members of the public away from the ceremony, and after dignitaries departed they still had to wait about an hour before being allowed to pay respects at the site. Le Monde recorded a young man waiting patiently with a bouquet of white daisies.
In the aftermath of the 2015 attacks, flowers, drawings, and messages had accumulated at memorial sites across Paris. A decade later, the order of access was created by security restrictions around that remembered place. This was not a queue for a purchase or a document. At its end there was nothing to acquire—only a brief opportunity to lay flowers, leave words, and stand quietly where the attack had taken place.