Authorities and the operator of Disneyland Paris have closed some of the world’s most popular tourist attractions following the Paris terror attacks that left at least 127 people dead on Friday.
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“It was the most spontaneous thing”.
Cancelling the finals would be “playing the game of the terrorists”, tournament organiser Jacques Lambert told French radio station RTL.
Participants observe a minute of silence with French Consul General Eric Berti, holding a peace sign featuring Eiffel Tower.
The cast of the hit NBC sitcom Undateable – which had its Friday episode postponed – shared a snap of the actors holding signs that depicted Jullien’s image. It wasn’t particularly an illustrator’s response, he said, “more an instinctive, human reaction”. And now it’s making it’s creator Jean Jullien famous, whether he likes it or not.
Just after midnight in Paris on Friday night, he tweeted out the image which has since been re-tweeted over 50,000 times from NY to Sydney – appearing at memorials, on posters and t-shirts, even shoes – much to Jullien’s surprise, and somewhat to his discomfort. When Jean Jullien, a French artist, posted a rugged drawing of the peace symbol with the iconic image of the Eiffel Tower as the center, he had no idea the massive impact it would have. Design. “Images define and describe tragedies and other monumental happenings”.
His contribution to the Charlie Hebdo attack, showing a pencil being thrust into the barrel of a rifle beneath the legend Je Suis Charlie, was one of the most-shared images of that tragedy.
“But I can’t feel pride or happiness because it is such a dark time. I was thinking about them”, he says. Approximately four hours after it had gone live on Twitter, it had accumulated 16,000 retweets from Jullien’s personal Twitter account; after 24 hours that number had climbed up to 53,000 retweets.
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Millions also took to social media to show their support for the people of Paris.
