At the spot outside La Belle Equipe cafe where paramedics knelt over dead bodies on that terrible night a year ago, people gather to drink wine and catch up with friends.

Where police in riot gear ran with their guns drawn in pursuit of a possible suspect, a girl wheels past on a scooter. Where thousands of anguished Parisians gathered for a national service outside the Notre Dame cathedral, tourists mill about, taking photos.

A year after Islamic State group attacks killed 130 people at cafes, outside the French national stadium and inside the Bataclan theater, people chat on restaurant patios, visitors take selfies at iconic sites and children play in the streets.

To mark a year since the attacks, Associated Press photographers returned to some of the sites where the drama unfolded that night and in the days after. What they found is that while things will never be quite the same, Paris is still Paris.

This combination of two photos shows a Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 photo, top, of police officers in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris after the Paris attacks, and a child traveling by scooter along the same street, bottom, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Francois Mori)

This combination of two photos shows a Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 photo, top, of police operating in Saint Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, after the deadly attacks, and people walking by and using the cafe, bottom, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Francois Mori)

This combination of two photos shows a Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 photo, top, of medical staff standing near victims of violence in a Paris restaurant, and people walking along the street passing the restaurant, bottom, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 photo, top, of a man wearing a t-shirt reading "I am Paris", observing a minute silence, outside the Sorbonne university, in Paris, after the deadly attacks, and people walking through the streets, bottom, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 photo, top, of flowers and candle tributes placed outside the Restaurant Le Carillon in Paris after the Paris attacks, and people walking past the restaurant, bottom, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 photo, top, of victims of a shooting attack on the pavement outside La Belle Equipe restaurant in Paris, and a man walking by people sitting outside the cafe, bottom, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (Anne Sophie Chaisemartin via AP/AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 photo, top, of a man holding his head in his hands as he lays flowers in front of the Carillon cafe, in Paris, after the deadly attacks, and people walking past the cafe, bottom, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 photo, top, of people as they pay their respects to the victims at the site of the attacks on restaurant Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) and the Carillon Hotel on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris, after the deadly attacks, and a woman cycling past the cafe, bottom, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 photo, top, of people gathering for a national service at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, for the victims of the terror attack, and people walking through and standing outside the cathedral, bottom, on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 photo, top, of French police officers on guard near the church of Sacre Coeur, on top of the Montmartre hill with a view of Paris, after the Paris attacks, and tourists taking photos, bottom, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Francois Mori)

This combination of two photos shows a Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 photo, top, of a man carrying two children after panic broke out among mourners who payed their respect at the attack sites at restaurant Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) and the Carillon Hotel in Paris, and people cycling along the road, bottom, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 photo, top, of people strolling on the almost empty Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris, a day after the terror attacks, and people walking and driving along the Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris, bottom, on Monday Nov. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu,, Kamil Zihnioglu)

This combination of two photos shows a Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 photo, top, of a refelction of a man reading a newspaper with the headline: "War in the Heart of Paris" in a hotel lobby in Paris, after the attacks on the city, and seen through the hotel window people walking along the zebra crossing, bottom, on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Thibault Camus)

This combination of two photos shows a Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 photo of a bird in front of the Eiffel Tower, which remained closed on the first of three days of national mourning, in Paris, and a bird in front of the Eiffel Tower, bottom, on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Francois Mori)

Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: Scenes from the Paris attacks, 1 year later, by Cara Rubinsky.

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