Monday, January 12, 2015

The response to jihadism overflows Paris



"Paris is today the capital of the world," announced in the morning the French president, François Hollande. The unit claimed that the French did raise. As with the broad representation of agents to those who requested his presence in the "republican rally". Attended the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, British prime minister, David Cameron; the Spanish president, Mariano Rajoy; or the prime ministers of Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, or the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

Special significance was the presence of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Both were placed in the first line of the official procession. "Today we are all French citizens," said the Secretary of Justice in the USA, Eric Holder, present also in the capital. The head of the Spanish Government said: "No one is ever safe from nothing. It would be unconscionable say that there are no risks. No country can fight only against this". The Italian Matteo Renzi said: "We shall emerge as winners of this challenge against terrorism. What is important is the Europe of the brethren". "The jihadist threat will be with us for many years", I am sorry the British prime minister, David Cameron. On 18 February, there will be a terrorism summit in Washington.

Hollande addressed the group of relatives and friends of the victims. The tears jumped when he embraced to Patrick Pelloux, doctor and member of the team of the magazine; a police of Marseille, the brother of the police officer killed in the magazine, and relatives of the four Jews killed on Friday.

The number of attendees overflowed all forecasts in the feast of freedom and tolerance. "I am Charlie", "I am Jewish", cries of "Charlie, Charlie" or "I am poly" were the cries heard most when I broke the silence. "It has taken the of Charlie to feel united. Let us go," wrote someone in big letters on the floor in the plaza of the Republic. The gear broke out at the end as a feast, with a charanga band that moved toward the place de la Bastille between French flags and Muslim countries to the cry of "freedom".

The diversity of messages reflect the diversity of the demonstrators. Yawougan, aged 35, is from Togo. Arrived in France with six years. His wife, Nassera, 31, is francoargelina. They have two children. The four represent the France that Paris flooded this Sunday. "We have come with our children because we wanted them to live a lesson in tolerance," explained Yawougan. "We are Muslims but they are not. The bullets that killed the people of Charlie Hebdo crossed our hearts too. It is important that my children are here also because we are a family of immigrants and don't want anyone can never tell you that are not French. France, we are all".