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#JeSuisCharlie Rallies Spread in Europe as Paris Shows No Fear

By Laura Ratliff and Tom Randall January 07, 2015



An outpouring of solidarity spread from workplaces to social media to candlelight vigils across Europe after gunmen killed top editorial cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine in Paris.

#JeSuisCharlie rose to one of the top trends on Twitter, along with #ParisShooting, Charlie Hebdo, and Trafalgar Square, where thousands of people rallied in London as night fell following the massacre.



Trafalgar Square - #London #JeSuisCharlie #CharlieHebdo

In Paris, ralliers held pens in the air to show that speech would not be quelled by the threat of violence:





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This is Paris right now. #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie

That sentiment was echoed in Berlin:



And in The Hague:



Journalists at wire service Agence France-Presse shared their support:



In Madrid, "Todos Somos Charlie" rang through the streets:



In Amsterdam:



At the Place de la République, Parisians showed they wouldn’t be cowed by fear:




Echoed in Lyon: "You are so alone, we are so many."



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