Enormous crowds are gathering across France to show solidarity with the journalists of Charlie Hebdo and to demonstrate to support freedom of speech. The demonstrations come after an attack on the offices of the satirical magazine that left 12 people dead.
Many of the demonstrators are holding up pens
Others are holding up their press cards
Students are standing with journalists
The crowds in central Paris are enormous
#JeSuisCharlie has become their rallying cry
But the demonstrations are not just in Paris. People have gathered all over France in moving displays of democratic values
In Marseille
In Lyon
In Toulouse
In Nice
In Nantes
In Strasbourg
In Bordeaux
In Lille
In Montpellier
And in Rennes
The demonstrations of solidarity have spread to the capitals of Europe
There are crowds in London
And in Berlin
And in Madrid
And in Barcelona
And in Rome
And in Amsterdam
Across the capitals of Europe, and the world, people are standing in solidarity with Paris and the staff of Charlie Hebdo.
#JeSuisCharlie
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