Trafalgar Square Vigil Shows London Standing Shoulder To Shoulder With Paris

The sporting world showed its respects, observing a period of silence in Ukraine and Sweden ahead of this evenings play offs.

The City of London Corporation said: “As a mark of respect to the Paris victims we will light Tower Bridge in colours of the Tricolor instead of annual #LMS800 fireworks”.

The vigil was second to be held in central London on Saturday after another was held in Trafalgar Square at 2pm.

Front pages of papers sold in Paris following the attacks in the French capital. “We don’t know the answer to that yet”.

Officials confirmed the safety of many British citizens in Paris, but a team from the Metropolitan Police and extra consular staff were sent to work with the French authorities to establish the fate of other United Kingdom nationals in the French capital.

The two students live and study in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, where more than 80 people were killed in an attack on a nightclub Friday night and where staff members of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were attacked in January. Terrorist attacks are meant to divide us and destroy the freedoms and way of life we value so highly.

“We are even far away. close to them”. They want to spread fear.

“We’ve experienced 9/11 in our country”, said Allison Cal. “It hits home in that sense”. “The vigil is about Paris and it’s about France but it’s beyond that”.

“For security purposes we have been asked to not bring any candle or anything that can cause a fire incident”.

The Queen said she and husband Prince Philip were “deeply shocked and saddened by the awful loss of life in Paris” while Cameron told the French people: “Your pain is our pain, your fight is our fight”.

Meanwhile, DR Shuja Shafi, the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “This attack is being claimed by the group calling themselves ‘Islamic State”.

By nightfall a French flag was hanging from the arch in Washington Square Park and city workers were installing colored lights that, when completed, would illuminate the entire structure in blue, white and red.

Mayor Fischer said, “In our own city we have seen people come together and reject extremism”.

Around the world, monuments were illuminated with the tricolour, including the Sydney Opera House, Brandenburg Gate ibn Berlin and One World Trade Centre in NY.