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PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris’s Eiffel Tower went black an hour earlier than usual in memory of the 14 victims of the St Petersburg attack on Tuesday (April 4). The lights went out at the monument just before midnight (2200GMT), echoing a similar tribute to the victims of the London stabbings last month. Previously the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colors of the French, German, Belgian and rainbow flags as a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Lights on the Eiffel Tower will be switched off at midnight (2300 GMT) on Wednesday in solidarity with those killed and injured in a terror attack outside Britain’s parliament. The decision was taken by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo following the deadly attack in which a man ploughed his car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge then leapt out and stabbed a policeman, killing three people and wounding more than 20. Hidalgo […]
by Fabienne FAUR Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris, will soon be protected by bulletproof glass walls 2.5 metres (eight feet) high, part of a plan to prevent attacks at the monument, the city said Thursday. The walls costing some 20 million euros ($21.4 million) will be erected this autumn at the northern and southern ends of the monument area, city hall said in a statement. On […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris turned off the famed lights of the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday (December 14) as a gesture of solidarity with the citizens of the Syrian city of Aleppo. “This symbolic measure at a building known worldwide will aim to once again alert the international community to the need for urgent action,” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement. Thousands of people fled the frontlines of fighting in Aleppo on […]
