Many of Paris’s top tourist attractions closed down Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital.
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A city famed for its glamour and bustling streets seemed garbed in mourning as Parisians struggled with the shock of the multiple attacks that claimed scores of lives.
“I express myself visually, so my first reaction was to draw a symbol of peace for Paris”, Jullien told TIME Saturday.
Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy declared, “We are all France”, apparently echoing France’s support for the United States (“We are all Americans”) after 9/11.
The Brandenburg Gate stands illuminated in the colors of the French flag as people arrive to lay candles and flowers at the gate of the adjacent French Embassy following the recent terror attacks in Paris on November 14, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.
The BBC cited French sources that said more than 200 people were injured, including 80 who were critically injured.
Metro’s Homeland Security Division is monitoring the attacks like they do “whenever there is a terrorist attack anywhere in the world”, spokesman officer Larry Hadfield said. The extremist group said it was retaliating to insults of the Prophet Muhammed and French airstrikes in IS territory in Iraq and Syria – and that the attacks were “only the start of the storm”.
Police officials in France say there has been an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium and a shootout in a Paris restaurant. “It was spontaneous. I wanted to do something that could be useful for people”.
Isobel Bowdery penned a poignant account of the attack at the Bataclan.
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A number of bands including U2 and the Foo Fighters have now cancelled shows in Paris and the rest of France out of solidarity with the victims. In January, 17 people were killed, including five of the cartoonists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in militant gun attacks. This has nothing to do with the attacks, the BBC reported.
