Plantu’s image was being widely shared across social media by French people and others wishing to express their condolences to the Belgian people.
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In the aftermath of the latest terror attack in Europe, the Internet is uniting around a Le Monde cartoon celebrating unity.
It shows the national flag of France comforting a crying Belgium flag with the words: “13 novembre…22 mars…” – a reference in French to the dates of the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.
In London, the British prime minister’s office at Downing Street in London has also raised the Belgian flag in solidarity.
Other illustrators have shown their solidarity with peace signs and hearts in the black, yellow and red colors of the Belgian flag.
Israeli’s Transport and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz found himself in the spotlight of global media after he directed a broadside at “chocolate-eating Belgians liberals” following the Brussels attacks.
Erdogan’s office later identified the man as Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of the two brothers named by Belgium as responsible for the attacks that killed at least 31 people in Brussels on Tuesday and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
The attacks came just four days after authorities finally collared the man behind November’s attacks in Paris.
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Twitter users in Brussels have offered help to those affected by the attacks using the hashtag #i?kwillhelpen?. A brief moment of elation followed the arrest of Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam last week in Brussels, but that was quickly snuffed out by Tuesday’s carnage.
