On the front of the shirt is a picture of the Eiffel Tower with the slogan “Je Suis Paris”, which translates to I am Paris and has been used in social media to indicate solidarity with the French capital. Major globally-broadcast concerts in the city, including the Al Gore-backed Live Earth and U2 live in Paris, were also cancelled on Saturday and Sunday nights.
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“The Eiffel Tower is now closed until further notice”, reads a scrolling banner along the bottom of the Eiffel Tower’s official website. “Thank you for your understanding”.
A spokesman for the Accor hotel chain also said it was a false bomb alert.
Friday’s terror attacks in Paris produced an avalanche of empathy online, and proved once again the power of simple images to unite people in times of crisis.
Just a handful of single yellow lights adorned France’s most famous landmark, with the usual swelling crowds noticeably absent.
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Flights, trains and ferries into and out of France are all running a normal service, but have warned passengers to allow extra time for border controls. However, a few airline companies have ceased their flights.
“Almost all tourist sites and activities are closed today: museums, department stores, parks and gardens…”
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.
The film’s poster isn’t any better, featuring a provocative image of an assault rifle shaped in the image of the Eiffel Tower.
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All through the city Dunmire and others encountered places they couldn’t go because of house-to-house searches for people who may have been involved in the attacks, he said.
