Paris terror attack victims honoured at national memorial service

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Paris terror attack victims honoured at national memorial service



France has paid tribute to the 130 people killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris, exactly two weeks ago today.

At a solemn ceremony at the city’s Les Invalides monument, victims’ families joined survivors, emergency service workers, religious leaders and politicians for a national memorial service at which the names of those massacred by Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers were read out.

President Francois Hollande told the more than 2,000 people present: “We will not give in to either fear or hatred.”

And in response to the extremists who targeted people sitting at cafes, attending a rock concert and a football match, he pledged there would be more songs, concerts and shows, and vowed that the French people would keep going to sports stadiums.

Hollande pointed out that most of those killed were aged under 35 and said that their generation had now become “the face of France” in which he had full confidence.

A minute’s silence was held in honour of those killed. The French national anthem – La Marseillaise – was sung and other music performed included Jacques Brel’s “Quand on n’a que l’amour”.

ISIL said it was behind the November 13 attacks. Hollande vowed that everything would be done to destroy what he called “the army of fanatics” but insisted that France would not change.

“The patriotism that we see expressed today with these flags proudly displayed, these spontaneous gatherings, these crowds singing the Marseillaise…Yes, that has nothing to do with any kind of instinct for revenge or any sort of rejection of others,” he said.

“Because, despite the tragedy, despite the blood spilled, France has kept its principles of hope and tolerance intact.”

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-27

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Paris, I'm with you....

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as a response to the picture from precedent post above, from http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/11/27/drapeau-hommage-national-systeme-d-francais_n_8660892.html?utm_hp_ref=france

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[GaryAdriaenssens]

Sorry to bring it up but this a "real comfort" for all the relatives and friends of these victims. Gone is gone and although we must honor them it should be nice to do that on a weekly basis, shouldn't cost so much time and especially money, should it!? Because what most likely happens now is that in a month's time there will only be a slight memory in most people's mind of what happened on that terrible day. Life must go on, of course, we have no other choice anyway. Let us hope that Hollande and certainly Law Enforcement in France and beyond start to do the things that are really necessary which is clean up the ghettos all over France and bring an immediate halt to all Immigration. If he has the political courage to do so then we might not see another repeat in a few months time, either in France or another European country. In the meantime I wish those who lost a loved one the very best in a month of December in which they probably won't celebrate the same as in previous years.... (and that includes the families/friends of the Muslim victims too).