Polls have indicated Le Pen’s past strong speeches against immigration are helping her campaign in the 2017 presidential race, reported Reuters.
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People also harnessed the power of social media in the search for their missing loved ones as Parisians desperate to get in touch with family and friends missing since Friday’s wave of gun and bomb attacks posted heartbreaking messages and photos under the hashtag #rechercheparis – Paris Search.
A screen projected an image of the Eiffel Tower and dozens of candles were lit in the grass in the form of number 153 by members of Las Vegas’ secular community who met at The Slammer, a large house in the southwest valley being transformed into a community center.
Several companies began marketing t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase Pray for Paris, a few purporting to offer a percentage of the sales to victims of the attacks.
Caruso said he first found out about the attacks from a professor at Western New England who had contacted him.
Paris is by no means a ghost town – many are flouting authorities’ requests to stay indoors if possible and making their way to the many vigils across the city.
Special church services were planned at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and around France.
Many with ties to Paris and the region spent the day checking in with their loved ones there. It will remain closed “until further notice”, she added.
A few say this is the right approach.
In solidarity, the lights on Las Vegas’ Eiffel Tower will remain dimmed and will continue to shine in blue, white and red, like the French flag, according to a spokeswoman for Caesar’s Entertainment Corporation. “It was my way of communicating with people I know and showing that I was thinking about everyone affected in Paris”.
“It’s exactly what the terrorists want, for people to be frightened”. He said France – which is part of a US-led coalition bombing suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq and also has troops fighting militants in Africa – “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group”.
Every night, the head of French counterintelligence goes to bed asking ‘why not today?’ the French security official said.
Tourist operators hope so. “Nearly at $1,000 in donations”.
Jullien’s artwork has spread across social media platforms, as well as the hashtags #PrayforParis, which Lambert and Fergie used, and #JeSuisParis, a take on “Je Suis Charlie”, a catchphrase that was used in January, in support of freedom of speech and in remembrance of the 12 victims killed at the offices of French satirical weekly newspaper, Charlie Hebdo.
If a picture says a thousand words, then it can express so much more than 140 characters.
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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.
