More than 100,000 people gathered late Wednesday afternoon throughout France, according to an AFP count, to honor the victims of the attack against Charlie Hebdo.
In Paris, 35,000 participants, according to the police headquarters, gathered Republic Square, near the headquarters of the satirical newspaper, the call of several unions, associations, media and political parties. Protesters of all ages, struggled to reach the place, full of people, causing crowd movement and traffic was cut off, said a journalist from AFP.
In the packed crowd, many wore a black sticker or a sign “I’m Charlie” slogan solidarity with the victims, which also runs on twitter. Some were collected, candle in hand. Others waved pencils, symbol of freedom of the press. First silent protesters then applauded and shouted “Charlie, Charlie,” “Charlie brotherhood” or “We are not afraid, Charlie!”.
Among the signs, you could see ” Charb death free. ” The designer Charb among the victims of the massacre, as Cabu, Wolinski Tignous and other iconic figures of the newspaper. Large black and white portraits of Cabu and Tignous were also exhibited.
Other placards proclaiming “Freedom of expression, not the bullshit,” “tragic Balls Charlie” or “Guns . against pens “
Some participants said they were not regular readers of the newspaper, but felt it important to demonstrate to defend freedom of expression
-. ‘I cried all afternoon ‘-
“Religions is crap. Charlie is the right to think that. So many people shy away from a moral at the con, “says Beatrice Cano, fifties, the last issue of the paper by hand.
Many politicians attended the rally, including the President of the Assembly National Claude Bartolone, the first secretary of the PS Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the president of the Ile-de-France region Jean-Paul Huchon and Jean-Louis Borloo. The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced plans to make Charlie Hebdo an “honorary citizen” of the city.
A teacher of history and geography of Montmorency (Val-d’Oise) held a banner “Freedom of the press is priceless.” “If it was the extreme left militants who attacked Minute, I would have come. I would have come a little slower, but I’d come, “he said.
They were also between 13,000 and 15,000 in Rennes, emblazoned with a weekly Charlie on his stomach or back between 10,000 and 15,000 in Lyon chanting “Charlie” and 10,000 in Toulouse, city of Bernard Maris, economist killed in the attack. Under the windows of City Hall, Patrick and his son Eliott distributing copies of a leaflet “I’m Charlie.” “I cried all afternoon in my office,” says the father, architect of 50 years. “Cabu, it was like a small dad to me. Our children, we bequeath them a world that’s hard, I hurt, I feel ashamed. “
5000 people gathered in Grenoble, Bordeaux and Nantes, Strabourg 4,500 to 2,500 in Metz 7000 in Marseilles, where Didier, who runs a souvenir shop, had “dropped the curtain of his establishment. All these people as Cabu, have given me want to see things differently, I would like vivid Charlie. “
They were also more than 2,000 in Dijon, 4000 in Rouen, or 3000 in Clermont-Ferrand, a city of one of the victims of the attack, Michel Renaud, founder of the festival Rendezvous travel itinerary, which was in the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
Overall Several dozen cities were mobilized, as Nancy, Montpellier, Nice, Angouleme, Limoges, Besancon, Poitiers or Agen. Other meetings are already scheduled Thursday and during the weekend. Rallies were also held abroad, particularly in Berlin, Brussels, Madrid and London.
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