As the hours unfolded and the world learned of the grisly attacks Friday in Paris, Jean Jullien was hanging onto his radio, listening to every single word.
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With raw emotions, the French illustrator who was traveling for the holidays, took to pen and paper.
The picture shows a traditional peace sign with the typical three pronged cross in the centre being replaced by the Eiffel Tower.
It has been embraced by the world as the symbol to show solidarity with the City of Light and has been printed on t-shirts, posters and flags, and been shared across social mediaalong with the hashtags #PrayforParis and #jesuisparis.
“This is the first thing I drew”. That’s about all I can say. The hashtag (hash)PorteOuverte – “open door” – became a vehicle for offering shelter to those in Paris who needed it. A Twitter spokesman, Christopher Abboud, said Saturday that there were 1 million tweets with the hashtag in 10 hours. The city seemed was under lockdown, said Chris Morrow, an American traveler.
A Lurgan couple had just landed in Paris as the horrendous terrorist attacks unfolded there on Friday night. Dozens of people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris on, 13 November 2015.
According to CNN, at least 80 were left dead at the Bataclan, a concert hall were a California band was scheduled to play and where the worst carnage occurred.
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And a small group of Las Vegans gathered in the southwest valley for a moment of silence Friday night. The song ended as quickly as it began, but the message was clear.
