12 dead in attack on Paris newspaper; France goes on alert

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Brevik, like muslim terrorists, pervert their own religion to justify extremism.

And yet our identikit, Liberal Establishment, Western leaders only try to separate the actions of terrorists from their religion when it's Muslim terrorists who have done it. They "do not represent Islam", yet when Anders Brevik goes on the rampage he's a "'far-right' Christian extremist."

This is despite the fact that Islam's teachings are responsible for the fact that that religion is far more violent than any other. It IS Islam which is responsible for the actions of these terrorists, despite the attempts of our identikit, Left-wing Western leaders to say otherwise.
 

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I think, as callous as this sounds, it takes more acts of terrorism in our day and age, to help people understand the true motivations of terrorism itself.

And I think that we will soon recognize that there will be more moderate muslims that exist because they are horrified by this extremism.

There is no war or immigration policy that will resolve this.

It will be the gradual evolution of peace over a longer stretch of time.

We just have to be patient enough to wait it out.
 

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I think, as callous as this sounds, it takes more acts of terrorism in our day and age, to help people understand the true motivations of terrorism itself.
It's attention whoring on a grand, and fatal, scale.

And I think that we will soon recognize that there will be more moderate muslims that exist because they are horrified by this extremism.

Which will not make a sliver of difference to the bigots. Senior Muslim clerics and leaders have been condemning violence since the 80s. They just don't get on Fox News, and rarely on other outlets.
 

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Now everyone please, please go out and buy my book 'The Moderate Muslim: The End of Islamic Terrorism' coming out next month on Amazon.

You can preorder now for only $9.99 with promo code: 'free speech'.
 

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You are on the rear cover my friend.

'This book is so awesome, I could just hug a Muslim right now!' - Tecumsehbones

And

'Holy fukk, I just threw my gun out the window!!' - Colpy
 

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I think you just answered your own question. :)

Saturday mornings are awesome.

Should probably get to the rest of the fam waking up now.
 

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Yeah, you smarmy appeasers go be 'patient' now, sitting by the dock of your bay and write 'I heart you' on the Instagram walls of the misunderstood and disadvantaged...aka waiting for the next episode of 'The Winds of Sh!t'.

dorks. :lol:

anyway...



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CNN refers to black hostage taker in France as 'African American'.


Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors - Small Dead Animals





 

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Voice of reason:

The terror dredged up long-known stresses in French society, including the lingering problems of disadvantaged young Muslims living in hives of apartments in the poor Paris suburbs. Yet President François Hollande, addressing the nation Friday, appealed to his citizens that they not see the violence this week as the product of Islam, but rather as the acts of “fanatics” that “have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.”

France remains anxious as police kill Charlie Hebdo terror suspects and ally - The Washington Post

“have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.”

Such idiocy.

They are obeying the directives of the Koran, the hadith, and the imams, and the example of the Prophet Mohammed (Pee Be Upon Him).......but it has nothing to do with Islam.

Such idiots.
 

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12 dead in attack on Paris newspaper; France goes on alert

France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced security at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Top government officials were holding an emergency meeting and Hollande planned a nationally televised address in the evening.

A witness who works nearby, Benoit Bringer, told the iTele network he saw multiple masked men armed with automatic weapons at the newspaper's office in central Paris. The attackers went to the second floor and started firing indiscriminately in the newsroom, said Christophe DeLoire of Reporters Without Borders.

"This is the darkest day of the history of the French press," he said.

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A dark day indeed. My heart goes out to the victims' families, cut down by a couple of deranged individuals
 

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Senior Muslim clerics and leaders have been condemning violence since the 80s.

They've also been actively supporting it since the 80s and earlier. I'm sure you've heard of Abu Hamza and Ram Jam Choudary.


‘Muslims don't believe in freedom of speech’ – radical cleric Chaudry

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Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary.(AFP Photo / Leon Neal


Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has come under heavy criticism for controversial remarks regarding Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Paris.

London based Choudary wrote a letter, published by US news outlet USA Today, claiming that Muslims “did not believe in the concept of freedom of expression,” and that the Sharia (Islamic law) was more important than the legal systems of liberal democracies.

“Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone.

Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires,” he wrote.

“Although Muslims may not agree about the idea of freedom of expression, even non-Muslims who espouse it say it comes with responsibilities. In an increasingly unstable and insecure world, the potential consequences of insulting the Messenger Muhammad are known to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.”


?Muslims don't believe in freedom of speech? ? radical cleric Chaudry ? RT UK



And here's another Muslim cleric which supports Islamic terrorism. The liberals like you who keep defending Islam on discussion forums and elsewhere don't realise that the Muslims are laughing at you behind your back and hate everything about you and all the liberal, lefty values (such as women's right and gay rights) you espouse.


'What do you expect if you insult Islam?' British hate preacher BACKS the Paris massacres and tells his followers 'Britain is the enemy of Islam'


Mizanur Rahman defended murders of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices
Hate cleric said: ‘Insulting Islam…they can’t expect a different result'
Rahman also praised Al Qaeda and said ‘Britain is the enemy of Islam’
Experts have warned the sermon could incite further terror killings
He is currently on bail after he was arrested on suspicion of terror offences last year

By Keiligh Baker for MailOnline
11 January 2015
Daily Mail

A British hate preacher backed the Paris massacres just hours after the bloody events unfolded and told his followers ‘Britain is the enemy of Islam’.

Cleric Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, north London, defended the brutal murder of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices, saying ‘insulting Islam…they can’t expect a different result.’

Experts have warned the sermon, which backed the jihadists who killed 17 people over three days in the French capital, could incite further killings.

British hate cleric Mizanur Rahman defended the Charlie Hebdo massacre and said ‘insulting Islam…they can’t expect a different result'

Speaking to an audience in London which was streamed online to thousands of his followers, Rahman praised Al Qaeda and said ‘Britain is the enemy of Islam.’

Sam Westrop, director of counter-extremism group Stand for Peace told the Sunday Mirror: ‘His kind of rhetoric is not an echo of Islamist terror and extremism – it is a driving force behind it.

‘It is truly reprehensible for him to speak like this, especially so soon after Paris.’

His speech on Friday night came to light after reporters from the Sunday Mirror gained access to an online live stream - they then notified the Metropolitan Police.

The newspaper reported that in the video Rahman claimed France was carrying out 'ethnic cleansing', and told his followers what happened in France was 'war.'

Members of the public light candles in tribute to the 17 dead in Paris following three days of terror attacks

He said: 'These cartoons is part of their own war, is part of the psychological warfare...you know what happens when you insult Mohammed.'

Rahman, who also goes by the name of Abu Baraa, is currently on police bail after he and others were arrested last year on suspicion of terror offences.

Rahman was jailed for six years in 2007 after calling for British soldiers to be brought back from Iraq in bodybags.

He manages the Siddeeq Academy in [surprise surprise] Tower Hamlets, an Islamic tuition centre in East London.

In May last year Rahman was investigated by police after a video showed him praising the Boko Haram militants who kidnapped more than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls.

He said at the time: ‘People want to make it out as though history began on the day these girls were taken from - sorry I should say these women - were taken from this high school in Nigeria.

Anti-Semitic attack: The kosher supermarket in Paris where four men and their hostage-taker died on Friday


‘They didn’t do to these girls what the Nigerian government had been doing to the Muslims all these years.

‘They didn’t rape anybody. They didn’t torture. They didn’t murder any of these girls.’

On another occasion a court heard he told a crowd of around 300 people near the Danish Embassy in central London that British and American troops should return in body bags.

The Old Bailey saw film of Rahman in which he said: 'We want to see them coming home in body bags.

'We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.'

He added: 'We want to see the Mujahideen shoot down their planes the way we shoot down birds, we want to see their tanks burn in the way we burn their flags.'

Rahman also had placards calling for the annihilation and beheading of those who insulted Islam.




A huge unity march is to take place in Paris in a couple of hours' time.

More than a million marchers - if not more - including around 40 world leaders, such as British Prime Minister David Cameron, British Home Secretary Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - are expected to take part. Several other European leaders will also attend as well as a representative of the United States.

The huge crowd will dwarf that seen in Paris when France won the 1998 World Cup and could even dwarf the huge crowds seen in the city at the end of WWII.

About 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers - including elite marksmen on rooftops - have been deployed to protect those taking part.

The march will commence at around 3pm French time (2pm UK time).

At the Elysee Palace ahead of Sunday's march, French President Francois Hollande met leaders from the Jewish community.

Jewish leaders said the president had told them new security measures would be put in place at all Jewish institutions on Sunday and Monday after the anti-Semitic attack on the kosher supermarket.

"We have decided to live our Judaism and we will continue to live normally, as we can't give in to violence", said Roger Cukierman, President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions, after the meeting.


Charlie Hebdo attacks: Vast Paris rally to take place

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Huge crowds and some 40 world leaders are expected in Paris for a unity march after 17 people were killed during three days of deadly terror attacks.

More than a million marchers are expected to take the streets.

Police are seeking accomplices of the gunmen who attacked satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.

Ahead of the rally a video emerged appearing to show supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to militant group Islamic State.

In the video he says was working with the Charlie Hebdo attackers, saying: "We have split our team into two... to increase the impact of our actions."

Said and Cherif Kouachi killed 11 people at the magazine offices in the French capital on Wednesday, with a policeman shot dead nearby.


The video appears to show Amedy Coulibaly explaining his motivation for his attacks

Coulibaly killed four hostages seized at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on Friday. He is also believed to have shot dead a policewoman in Montrouge on Thursday.

Jewish security raised

Sunday's Paris rally is expected to dwarf marches across France on Saturday, when 700,000 people took to the streets.

About 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers - including elite marksmen on rooftops - have been deployed to protect those taking part.

At the Elysee Palace ahead of Sunday's march, French President Francois Hollande met leaders from the Jewish community.


Yohan Cohen, Philippe Braham, Yoav Hattab and Francois-Michel Saada were killed at the supermarket

Jewish leaders said the president had told them new security measures would be put in place at all Jewish institutions on Sunday and Monday.

"We have decided to live our Judaism and we will continue to live normally, as we can't give in to violence", said Roger Cukierman, President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions, after the meeting.

Coulibaly is also believed to have shot dead a policewoman on Thursday.

He died when police stormed the supermarket. His partner, Hayat Boumeddiene, is still wanted by police - although she is thought to have fled France last week.

Officials believe she may have entered Turkey en route to Syria.

Extra security

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says France will stay on high alert in the coming weeks.

He will host a meeting on Sunday morning of fellow interior ministers from across Europe, including the UK's Theresa May, to discuss the threat posed by militants.

Mr Cazeneuve promised "exceptional measures" for the massive unity march in Paris on Sunday, including positioning snipers on roofs.

Foreign leaders expected to attend the rally include UK Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The march, which will be led by relatives of the victims of last week's attacks, will leave Place de la Republique at 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT).


Hundreds of thousands took to the streets on Saturday, with placards reading: "I am against racism"

Organisers hope it will offer France the chance to unite against the violence that began on Wednesday when two brothers raided the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 12 people - including eight journalists and two police officers. Eleven people were also injured.

The two were eventually cornered on Friday and shot dead as police moved against them and Coulibaly at the same time.

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Extra Jewish security patrol cars and police were out in force in North-West London yesterday following the kosher store siege in Paris.

The cars look very similar to police vehicles and bear the security group’s name ‘Shomrim’ – Hebrew for ‘guards’ – along the sides and back.

The Orthodox organisation, which works closely with the Metropolitan Police, tweeted: ‘Following events in Paris we will have on extra patrols throughout NW London over Shabbos [ the Jewish sabbath].'

Shomrim volunteers receive police training and uniforms, including knife-proof vests.


Jewish patrol cars out in force in London amid fears of copycat attack in wake of kosher store siege in Paris

Extra Jewish security patrol cars are out in force in North-West London
Move made amid fears of copycat attack in wake of Paris massacres
Tributes paid to victims of terrorist atrocities which left 17 people dead
Security cars look similar to police vehicles and bear the name 'Shomrim'
Volunteers receive police training and uniforms, including knife-proof vests

By Mail on Sunday Reporter and Keiligh Baker for MailOnline
11 January 2015
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Extra Jewish security patrol cars and police were out in force in North-West London yesterday following the kosher store siege in Paris.

The cars look very similar to police vehicles and bear the security group’s name ‘Shomrim’ – Hebrew for ‘guards’ – along the sides and back.

The Orthodox organisation, which works closely with the Metropolitan Police, tweeted: ‘Following events in Paris we will have on extra patrols throughout NW London over Shabbos [ the Jewish sabbath].'

Shomrim volunteers receive police training and uniforms, including knife-proof vests.


Jewish security patrol cars (pictured) and extra police were out in force in North-West London yesterday following the kosher store siege in Paris amid fears of a copycat attack in the capital

'We ask the community to remain calm and vigilant.’

Tributes have continued to be paid to the victims of three days of terrorist atrocities which left 17 people dead.

Shomrim tweeted on Friday: 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the Jewish community in Paris, the victims and families of victims in today's attacks.'

Based in Stamford Hill, the volunteers are trained by the Metropolitan Police and patrol the area regularly looking for anti-Semitic hate crimes, and general disorder in the neighbourhood.

The volunteer group, similar to a Neighbourhood Watch, are trained to safely track and detain suspects until police arrive, and run a 24-hour hotline for those in the area to report attacks.


A Metropolitan police officer patrols an area of North London with a large Jewish population yesterday


A million people, including 30 world leaders, are set to attend a rally in a show of unity in Paris today after hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets of France yesterday in a day of national mourning.

Yesterday, hundreds of flowers were laid at the scene in tribute to the victims of the Paris kosher deli massacre, where four hostages lost their lives on Friday.

Dozens of heavily armed police stood guard and extended the security area outside the Hyper Cacher grocery, as people left bouquets of flowers close to the scene on the outskirts of the French capital.

A young Jewish man who arrived to leave a bunch of flowers to honour the victims described the massacre as an 'attack on democracy'.

The man, who was in his 20s but did not give his name, said: 'Today is a very sad day for all of France.


A police officer speaks to a pair of men in an area of North London which has a large Jewish population

'This is not just an attack on the Jewish community, this is an attack on everyone, on all of France. This is an attack on democracy.'

At the Synagogue de Vincennes, just a brief walk from the grocery store, seven heavily armed policeman nervously kept watch and refused to let anyone approach the place of worship.

An extended security cordon had been placed on the streets around the synagogue and police were keen to quickly move people on amid fear of further attacks in the area.


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'We are here to support freedom. We will not be beaten': Paris sees ONE MILLION people stage defiant march alongside world leaders including David Cameron in moving tribute to 17 terror victims

Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande are among 40 world leaders taking part

Giant letters attached to statue in Place de la République spell 'Pourquoi?' as small groups sing national anthem


2,000 police officers and 1,400 soldiers deployed in Paris as officer describes atmosphere as
'extremely tense'

By Laurie Hanna and Emily Davies and Peter Allen for MailOnline
11 January 2015
Daily Mail


More than one million people gathered in Paris today to stage a defiant march alongside world leaders in a moving tribute to the 17 terror victims.

Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande were among around 40 world leaders taking part in the solidarity march.

Giant letters attached to a statue in the Place de la République spelt out the word ‘Pourquoi?’ (‘Why?’) and small groups sang the national anthem.

Other noted world leaders in the city included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Italian PM Matteo Renzi.

Among members of the public at the march was Isabelle Gabarre, who had travelled from their home in Rouen, Normandy, with her daughter Mathilde.



Thousands of people began filled France's Place de la République as world leaders converged on Paris in a rally of defiance and sorrow today




Waving their flags: Scenes from Place de la République today as people from around the world converge on the French capital


Starting at 3pm local time: People begin to gather at Place de la République in Paris before the demonstration


Packed free public transport was arranged to allow hundreds of thousands of mourners to flood into the city to join the march


Joining together: British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) met French President Francois Hollande (right) today at the Elysee Palace, Paris. British Home Secretary Theresa May is also taking part in the march




French President Francois Hollande welcomes Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel as she arrives at the Elysee Palace before the march


She told MailOnline: 'We are here to support freedom. We cannot be beaten. It is an important word, not only here in France, but around the world.

'We are proud of all the people here today. We want to show the world we are united and we are not scared.'

Free public transport was arranged to allow hundreds of thousands of mourners to flood into the city to join the march.

In the early morning, hundreds of heavily armed policeman stood guard on the city streets as a tense atmosphere prevailed.

Mourners carried signs reading ‘Je Suis Charlie’ in support of those killed by the Kourachi brothers in the Charlie Hebdo massacre on Wednesday.


DOZENS OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT SET TO JOIN MARCH

Today's historic mass rally in Paris is expected to draw more than a million people and a long list of world leaders in tribute to 17 people killed in three days of Islamist attacks.

It will include dozens of heads of state and government, along with French political leaders from both the left and right. Here is a list of world political figures who have confirmed their attendance:


EUROPE

French President Francois Hollande
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
European Parliament President Martin Schulz
European Union President Donald Tusk
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boïko Borissov
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibachvili
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz


NORTH AMERICA
US Attorney General Eric Holder
Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney


MIDDLE EAST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Jordanian King Abdullah II and Queen Rania
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan
Qatari Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani
Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled ben Ahmed Al Khalifa and Prince Abdullah Ben Hamad al-Khalifa


AFRICA
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
Gabonese President Ali Bongo
Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi
Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra


Yesterday: Thousands of people attend a demonstration in solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in and around Paris linked to Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo at the Old Port of Marseille yesterday


Elsewhere: Several thousand people walk behind a banner reading 'Live Together Free, Equal, and United' as they march to pay tribute to the victims following the shooting, during a demonstration in Nantes yesterday


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A former White House official says the terrorist attack that killed 12 people on Wednesday in Paris was a false flag operation “designed to shore up France’s vassal status to Washington.”
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, made the remarks in an article published on Thursday.
“The suspects can be both guilty and patsies. Just remember all the terrorist plots created by the FBI that served to make the terrorism threat real to Americans,” he wrote.
He said that the French economy is suffering from the US-imposed sanctions against Russia. “Shipyards are impacted from being unable to deliver Russian orders due to France’s vassalage status to Washington, and other aspects of the French economy are being adversely impacted by sanctions that Washington forced its NATO puppet states to apply to Russia.”
Dr. Roberts stated that French President Francois Hollande this week said that the sanctions against Russia should end. “This is too much foreign policy independence on France’s part for Washington.”


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London landmarks are to be lit in the colours of the French national flag later in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks.

Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square (ironically) and the National Gallery will be among the locations lit in red, white and blue.

A huge unity march is taking place in Paris, while in London, crowds have gathered at Trafalgar Square.

David Cameron is at the Paris rally "to show solidarity with the French people... after the appalling attacks".

"We're here to demonstrate that we all stand for the values of democracy, freedom, freedom of expression and tolerance," says the man who has been doing so much to curb the freedom of the British press.

In the UK, crowds are at Trafalgar Square, while there are similar scenes at Millennium Square in Leeds - where about 100 people are gathered - and about 250 are in Liverpool's Derby Square.


Meanwhile, a vigil is due to take place later in Cardiff Bay in front of the Senedd, which houses the Welsh Assembly, the home of the devolved Welsh government.


France attacks: London landmarks to be lit up in tribute

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Many people have gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to show solidarity with the Paris march


London landmarks are to be lit in the colours of the French national flag later in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks.

Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery will be among the locations lit in red, white and blue.

A huge unity march is taking place in Paris, while in London, crowds have gathered at Trafalgar Square.

David Cameron is at the Paris rally "to show solidarity with the French people... after the appalling attacks".

"We're here to demonstrate that we all stand for the values of democracy, freedom, freedom of expression and tolerance," he said.

"We in Britain face a very similar threat - a threat of fanatical extremism - and we have to confront that in every way we can."

Mr Cameron added he would be meeting security and intelligence chiefs on Monday to discuss how well prepared the UK is for a potential terror attack - and how it might respond.

'Murderous terrorism'

Twelve people were killed at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, with a policeman shot dead nearby. Four hostages died at a kosher supermarket on Friday.


With, ironically, France's nemesis Horatio Nelson looking down, pens were held aloft at Trafalgar Square in solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks



Many also held French flags and placards saying Je suis Charlie to remember the victims


Tributes, along with flowers and pens, were also left in the square


Many were also placed outside the French Embassy in Knightsbridge

More than a million people are expected to attend the Paris rally, which moved off from the Place de la Republique amid cheers, clapping and chants of "Liberte" and "Charlie", just after 14:30 GMT.

Mr Cameron was among dozens of world leaders who linked arms at the head of the march, along with the victims' families.

In the UK, crowds are at Trafalgar Square, while there are similar scenes at Millennium Square in Leeds - where about 100 people are gathered - and about 250 are in Liverpool's Derby Square.

Meanwhile, a vigil is due to take place later in Cardiff Bay in front of the Senedd, which houses the Welsh Assembly.


Crowds have gathered in Millennium Square in Britain's third city Leeds


A vigil is due to take place later in Cardiff Bay in front of the Senedd, which houses the Welsh Assembly, the home of the devolved Welsh government




Sombre but defiant


Many people are gathering in Trafalgar Square to show solidarity with the Paris march

By Nick Eardley, BBC News, at Trafalgar Square

There is a sombre but defiant mood as hundreds gather in London's Trafalgar Square to show support for the huge rally in Paris.

Among the crowd are many French expats and Britons offering their own messages of solidarity.

Many are holding signs that read Je suis Charlie, the words many have come to associate with French defiance in the face of extremism.

Others are holding similar signs saying Je suis Ahmed, a tribute to the Muslim police officer killed during the attacks on Charlie Hebdo's Paris office.

Others hold their pens and copies of cartoons in support of free speech.

Francois Thaury, 58, is originally from France but has lived in London for 15 years.

"I had to be here today," he says. "As a half-French, half-English citizen, it is so comforting to feel such solidarity from English people."

Mathieu Gillet, 32, is from Paris and has lived in London for two years.

"I'm here to demonstrate that the three values of France - liberty, equality, fraternity - are still alive and we definitely have to fight for those values," he says.

"It's a strong message that people are standing shoulder to shoulder and together, from around the world."



Thousands of people gathered at the Place de la Republique ahead of the rally


Leaders, including David Cameron, left, were at the head of the march


They were joined at the front by relatives of the victims

French President Francois Hollande, right, earlier welcomed David Cameron at the Elysee Palace

Tower Bridge will display the flag's colours from 16:00 until 17:30, after which the bridge will go dark. The emblem will also be projected on to the National Gallery.

The Trafalgar Square fountains will rotate the colours of the French flag, while the London Eye will go dark with the French colours projected on to County Hall behind it.

London mayor Boris Johnson said Londoners had been "appalled by the distressing scenes in France" and it was important to pay tribute.




Labour leader Ed Miliband, also marching in Paris, said: "We've been inspired by the response of the French people, and indeed by the response of people across faiths, across communities, in this country."

French Ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann said she was grateful for the UK's show of solidarity, adding many people had signed books of condolence at the London embassy.

Global figures

About 700,000 people were said to have taken part in marches across France on Saturday, including in Paris, Orleans, Nice, Pau, Toulouse and Nantes.

Sunday's Paris march is expected to dwarf these events and extra security has brought in to protect the marchers.

Other global figures attending include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.


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