TUNISIA-SECURITY/EUROPE-FLAGS Union Jacks fly at half mast across Europe for Tunisia victims

Record ID: 148630

  • Title: TUNISIA-SECURITY/EUROPE-FLAGS Union Jacks fly at half mast across Europe for Tunisia victims
  • Date: 3rd July 2015
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 3, 2015) (REUTERS) PEOPLE WALKING PAST BRITISH EMBASSY UNION JACK FLAG FLYING AT HALF MAST POLICE OFFICER STANDING GUARD IN FRONT OF EMBASSY UNION JACK FLAG FLYING AT HALF MAST BERLIN, GERMANY (JULY 3, 2015) (REUTERS) BRANDENBURG GATE / BRITISH EMBASSY VARIOUS OF UNION JACK FLAG FLYING AT HALF MAST ROME, ITALY (JULY 3, 2015) (REUTERS) CARS DRIVING PAST
  • Embargoed: 18th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA6HD3SFTB423JCWYILNWJLBDZY
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Union Jack flew at half mast outside British embassies across Europe on Friday (July 3) ahead of a minute's silence in remembrance of the 38 people killed in the Tunisia beach attack.
    The minute's silence is due to be held across the UK and across the British embassies and posts around the world.
    The massacre on Friday (June 26) in the coastal town of Sousse left 38 foreign tourists dead -- 30 of them were British holidaymakers.
    Dressed like a tourist, the gunman, Saif Rezgui, targeted only foreigners in his rampage at the Imperial Marhaba hotel before he was shot dead by police.
    Islamic State militants have claimed the attack -- the worst in Tunisia's modern history.
    Tunisian authorities say the attacker was trained in Libya at a jihadist camp last year.
    Authorities say he was in Libya at the same time as the two gunmen who carried out the March attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis, where 21 people were killed including Japanese, Spanish and Italian tourists.
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