Sunday 11 January 2015

World leaders join for "France unity rally," after terror attacks claimed 17 lives.

Here's a closer shot of French President Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel leading the march with counterparts from around the world.
Thousands and thousands of people, babies in pushchairs, people walking with crutches, young families, couples, all colours filling the Place de la Republique from all the feeder streets, as far as the eye can see.
People chanting "Liberte!" and "Charlie!", pausing only to take photos of the posters commemorating the victims of the killings, the tricolores waving and demonstrators who have climbed the statue of Marianne in the centre of the square.Francois Hollande, Italian PM Matteo Renzi, Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy, German chancellor Angela Merkel, British PM David Cameron, Turkey's PM Ahmet Davutoglu among other world leaders present,More pictures after the cut,
Nicolas Henin, a French journalist who was held hostage by Islamic State in Syria and released in April, is among those attending the march.

"Every time that people want to hurt you, the only way you can react, the only decent way, is to show that we are stronger than them," he told the BBC.


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