Paris Is About Life, ‘We Don’t Need More Religion’ Says Charlie Hebdo
The site is the Place de La Republique, where a massive demonstration was held in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings earlier in the year, but attendees said the crowd was much smaller than back then.
Twenty people, including three attackers, were left dead in the slaughter. The defence minister said France would revise its security strategy to better respond to terror attacks, with an expert warning that the terror strike wasn’t “one off” and similar attacks were likely to occur again.
Just hours after the Paris attacks, Joann Sfar is urging people around the world to stop using the hashtag #PrayforParis.
The police, fire fighters and various medical teams were among those who were also at the scene to help the injured and provide them assistance.
We are still now trying to determine the safety and whereabouts of all our band and crew.
A band member had tweeted a photo of the venue Friday afternoon, before the concert and before the attack.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named.
Emilioi Macchio, from Ravenna, Italy, was at the Carillon bar near the restaurant that was targeted, having a beer on the sidewalk when the shooting started.
The official, Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said explosions went off simultaneously near two entrances and a McDonalds.
“It sounded like fireworks”, he said.
Those attacks were the deadliest acts of terrorism in France since the 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing.
Being a cartoonist in France isn’t a simple business-especially not since January’s brutal attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The newspaper’s offices are in the same neighborhood where the restaurant shooting happened.
A young Moroccan armed with a Kalashnikov and a knife was subdued aboard aParis-bound high-speed train, as he was apparently preparing to attack passengers.