Attack vigils restore French pride - but now what?


  • World
  • Monday, 12 Jan 2015

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a tour of a soon-to-be-opened Ford India automotive factory in Sanand January 12, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

PARIS (Reuters) - France will never be quite the same again after last week's Islamist attacks, Prime Minister Manuel Valls predicted in the hours that followed. But as one lone banner at Sunday's mass vigil in Paris for the victims asked: "Now what?"

In a display of public emotion and solidarity not witnessed since the capital's 1944 liberation from Nazi Germany, 1.5 million French people poured onto the streets of Paris to mourn the 17 killed in three attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish deli and a policewoman on patrol.

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