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Meanwhile, London and other British cities were also lit up in French colors as sign of support.

“I have a lot of anxiety about how the world will react to the situation because in these moments it’s easy to act out of fear and anger, which often doesn’t lead to the best decision- and policymaking”, Hegdahl said.

Flowers and candles were also been placed in front of the nearby French embassy in the German capital.

A Twitter campaign has begun encouraging notoriously tribal England football fans to join with French travelling supporters in singing “La Marsellaise” before the kick-off in Tuesday’s friendly match between both countries.

“It is absolutely necessary that France regains control of its borders”, she said amid growing French concern over the massive influx of Muslim migrants into the country recently, a WND report said.

Thousands across the world proudly took to the streets chanting “We are Parisians”, waving the French flag and holding up placards saying “Pray for Paris”.

“I arrived here on Friday and within five minutes there was the terror attack”.

“We Europeans will all remember November 13 2015 as a European day of mourning”, it said.

At dusk, the city lit the square’s landmark arch in the blue, white and red of the French flag.

“The idea was just for people to have a tool to communicate, and to respond and to share solidarity and peace”.

French President Francois Hollande received calls from world leaders including Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. “The first people that I can possibly think of are the victims and their families”, he says.

Social media was flooded with tributes, messages of condolences and solidarity for the victims and for France, with #PrayforParis and #PrayersforParis the top trending hashtags by far.

One user, @emilymiddlemas_, wrote “I am so heart broken!”

We had already prearranged a private taxi transfer to pick us up, whilst in the vehicle we witnessed numerous police cars and motorbikes zooming past us, my wife and I knew at this time something was going on.

A simple image shared by millions across social media: the combination of a peace sign and the Eiffel Tower.

Tourists in Paris have described how the city “is in mourning” after the decision was made to close the Eiffel Tower following Friday’s terror attacks.

The artist was not in Paris at the time of the attacks – and has declined to disclose his current location in interviews – but heard about them on French radio several time zones away.

“Given the scale of the violence, the peace-and-love symbol was essential”.

“This is the first thing I drew”. “We need symbols to express what [we] can not say”, says Steven Heller, an educator as well as author, co-author, and editor of more than 100 books on design and popular culture.

The couple had told their daughter over the phone on Monday morning that people in France were not hiding behind their doors, nor were they in panic mode, but were continuing to go about their daily business.