ETD

• Bataclan
• Daesh
• Emmanuel Carrère
• emotion
• framing
• France
• justice
• mediatization
• memory
• narrative
• opinion
• policy
• repatriation
• rights
• security
• Syria
• trial.
• V13
• victims

This research explores how collective memory emerges from a traumatic event and what concrete political consequences it may have, through a case study of the November 13 attacks and France’s policies on the repatriation of individuals and families associated with the Islamic State. Taking the trial of the November 13 attacks in France as the empirical entry point, it examines, over the period 2015–2025, how the public memorialisation of the attacks especially through the mediatisation of the trial, has shaped the framing of a general right to repatriation for French families. Using media and discourse analysis informed by memory studies, the paper identifies controversies, clarifies dominant frames, and traces how ideas and symbols circulate across courtroom, media, and political arenas.