"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".
Monday, January 12, 2015
The response to jihadism overflows Paris
8:30 AM
Charlie Hebdo, France, François Hollande, Jihadism, Paris, Response