Monuments Around the World Are Illuminated in the French Flag’s Colors
When the Eiffel Tower – the symbol of Paris – went up, it materialized that joie de vivre.
The event made him think back to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Paris is probably the safest place to be – everywhere you look there’s people with guns”, said the 36-year-old from Birmingham, England. I just wanted something symbolic, something that everybody could understand easily, and everybody could share regardless of where they’re from…
Despite a few rumors that Banksy was the creator, Jullien has actually been properly credited for the image a great deal of the time, including by Instagram, which shared his post with its 113 million followers.
In the wake of the horrific acts of terrorism that ripped through France on Friday, November 13, killing more than 129 people and injuring hundreds, an image with a message of peace has emerged amid the darkness and gone viral.
“The Eiffel Tower is now closed until further notice”, reads a scrolling banner on the tower’s Web page.
French and other Western intelligence agencies face an urgent challenge of tracking down the surviving members of the three IS units who inflicted the unprecedented bloodshed in France and, perhaps more importantly, to target their distant commanders in Syria.
NY police marshalled about 200 officers and dozens of vehicles at Times Square in a show of force reminiscent of exercises staged in the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The next day he and other walked around but much of the city was shut down.
The Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas. For people, who are still planning to visit the City of Love, they must evaluate the risks involved before deciding to fly there again.
Forward sales did not appear to be affected, he said.
France’s most famous monument began welcoming visitors again on Monday at 4:20pm after it was closed throughout the weekend. He has continued to watch coverage of the attacks.
The group was about 3.5 miles from one attack and another was about 8 miles away.