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VIDEO: Dozens take part in O'Connell Street vigil to mourn victims of Paris terror attack

Dozens of people took part in a vigil on O'Connell Street in Dublin last night. Vigils have ...
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07.32 8 Jan 2015


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VIDEO: Dozens take part in O'Connell Street vigil to mourn victims of Paris terror attack

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07.32 8 Jan 2015


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Dozens of people took part in a vigil on O'Connell Street in Dublin last night. Vigils have been held in cities across the globe to mourn the victims of the Paris terror attack and show support for freedom of speech.

More than 35,000 people gathered in Paris where gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 10 journalists and two police officers.

Thousands also turned out in the French cities of Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Marseille.

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Many of those at the Place de la Republique in the French capital carried signs with the words "Je suis Charlie", which mean "I am Charlie" in English.

Others used slogans such as "press freedom has no price" and "Charb mort libre" (Charb died free), a reference to the magazine's editor Stephane Charbonnier, one of four cartoonists killed by the terrorists.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Berlin, London, New York, Brussels, Madrid, Rome and Vienna to express their horror at the killings.

About 500 people stood in silence in front of the French embassy in Berlin, with many holding candles and waving the European Union flag.

In Trafalgar Square, people held up their mobile phones showing the "Je suis Charlie" message.

Some sang the Marseillaise, the French national anthem, while holding pens as a symbol of press freedom.

In Spain, the French ambassador to Madrid, Jerome Bonnafont, joined a crowd of several hundred people outside the embassy shouting "Free speech, free speech".

Around 150 people, most of them French, also stood in silence outside the French embassy on the Piazza Farnese in the heart of Rome.


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