Paris Attacks: ‘Peace for Paris’ symbol designed by Jean Jullien goes viral
The attacks come as the president is preparing for two trips abroad. In a tweet, police said Salah was a “dangerous individual”. The Charlie Hebdo attackers claimed links to extremists in Yemen, while the kosher market attacker claimed ties to the Islamic State group.
Grief, alarm and resolve spread across Europe and the globe one day after coordinated terror attacks killed more than 120 people in Paris.
Three attackers managed to blow themselves up close to the stadium where President Francois Hollande, together with tens of thousands of fans, was watching a soccer game. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports that suddenly, a stampede broke out. “Police were around, but no one knew what’s going on”.
Paris resident Othmane Youssfi, 23, said it was strange to see “the city of love” looking so sad. Well over 100 people were killed in Paris on Friday night in a series of shooting, explosions. In the Place de la Bourse, a large square near the Paris Opera, traffic was unusually thin and pedestrians were few.
But there have been other events since then that attracted less attention.
Bill O’Neill and his son Joe, from Hertfordshire, said they wanted to show solidarity with the French people. “The National Anthem is playing, but tonight our thoughts are with Paris”, a caption on the Capitals Twitter feed read. An informal visit to the cinema, or if your nerves are frayed, just watching movies back in your hotel will also be excellent choices.
“My first reaction was to draw something and share it”, he told AFP. We want these attacks to stop. She resumed the concert with her 1989 hit single “Like a Prayer”.
– Authorities found a Syrian passport next to a dead suicide bomber at France’s national stadium.
It seems appropriate for the Eiffel Tower to turn of its lights as the country is in mourning. The image is also being printed on T-shirts, posters, memorials and flags, according to various sources.
Jullien said the design came to him by simple association of Paris and peace.
– Nearly a hundred victims are in critical condition. Dearborn has one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the United States.
Victims lay on the pavement in a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. As a shrine of flowers expanded along the sidewalk, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon’s peace ballad, “Imagine”. And somehow graphically it seemed to work.
“These societies tightened their security, got the bad guys, and carried on”. At the approach of the Christmas season, the store’s glitzy windows are usually crowded by young Parisians, eager to watch automated puppets in scenes from popular tales. “We pray for the injured and we hold them all in our hearts”, said a statement from Tom Wolber, President of Euro Disney S.A.S, posted on the park’s website. A spokesman for the band says efforts are being made to contact members. One described “carnage” inside the building, saying the attackers tossed explosives at the hostages. Yesterday the puppets went through their movements without an audience as fairy music played in the background.
“You know, it’s putting me in a spotlight that I don’t necessarily want to be [in], because I don’t want to benefit from this exposure, in the sense that it’s a tragedy first and foremost”, Jullien told NPR.