USA/FRANCE: MEMORIALS ARE HELD IN PARIS AND NEW YORK FOR VICTIMS OF RECENT BOMB ATTACKS IN MADRID
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USA/FRANCE: MEMORIALS ARE HELD IN PARIS AND NEW YORK FOR VICTIMS OF RECENT BOMB ATTACKS IN MADRID
- Title: USA/FRANCE: MEMORIALS ARE HELD IN PARIS AND NEW YORK FOR VICTIMS OF RECENT BOMB ATTACKS IN MADRID
- Date: 13th March 2004
- Summary: (U7) PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 12, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. PAN UP: EXTERIOR VIEW OF NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL 0.05 2. PAN:PEOPLE ARRIVING FOR MASS 0.12 3. POLICE CHECKING PEOPLE BEFORE THEY GO INSIDE CATHEDRAL 0.20 4. SPANISH AMBASSADOR ARRIVING AT NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL 0.25 5. FRENCH PRIME MINISTER JEAN PIERRE RAFFARIN GOING INSIDE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL 0.38 6. RAFFARIN AND OTHER OFFICIALS INSIDE CATHEDRAL (2 SHOTS) 0.47 7. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE INSIDE CHURCH (2 SHOTS) 1.07 8. (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH CARDINAL LUSTIGER, SAYING "After what happened in Spain, with all these victims, all European countries feel threatened by all this vengeance and violence, by all this hatred." 1.35 9. PRIESTS LISTENING TO CARDINAL 1.38 10. PEOPLE PRAYING 1.46 11. (SOUNDBITE) (French) UNIDENTIFIED PRIEST SAYING "For the 1,400 wounded, for the families of the victims, for all the innocent victims, that they may find support and relief in dealing with their pain, let's pray." 2.09 12. PAN: PEOPLE INSIDE CATHEDRAL 2.16 (W7) NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 13, 2004) (REUTERS) 13. PAN FROM UN BUILDING TO RALLY ACROSS THE STREET 2.24 14. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE HOLDING SPANISH FLAGS AND SIGNS READING: NO ETA, NO TERRORISM (3 SHOTS) 2.45 15. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CARMEN LOMBAS GARCIA, SUPPORTER, SAYING "We're here to show our solidarity to the victims. We feel a deep pain, I imagine all of us do, because there were people from many countries, not only Spaniards and we all feel a great anger. We're asking that this barbarism ends, that these cowardly assassinations end." 3.06 16. VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS WITH HANDS RAISED 3.13 17. CU: SHOT OF HAND WITH WRITING READING: "ETA, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT OVER LIFE. YOUR HANDS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD." 3.17 18. VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS WITH FLAGS AND SIGNS (3 SHOTS) 3.43 19. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish), JUAN (DID NOT GIVE LAST NAME), ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATOR, SAYING "I don't think anyone is taking into account the real evidence. I read in the papers this morning that a spokesman for the PP (Popular Party) said that the Arabic-language tape found in the van was placed by an enemy of the government, so they're treating us like idiots, that's the damn truth, they're treating us like idiots." 4.02 20. VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS (3 SHOTS) 4.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE / NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Memorials in Paris and New York for those killed in
Thursday's bomb attacks in Madrid.
A special mass attended by French Prime Minister
Jean Pierre Raffarin was held in Paris on Saturday (March
13) in solidarity with the victims of the Madrid bombings
and their families.
Approximately 1,000 people gathered at Paris Notre Dame
Cathedral to pray and offer their support and condolences
to the relatives of the 200 people killed by bombs in
Madrid on Thursday (March 11).
The Paris service was given by French Cardinal
Lustiger, who said all European countries feel threatened
"by all this vengeance and violence, by all this hatred."
Following the Madrid bombings France on Friday (March
12) raised terrorist alert levels from yellow to orange
across the country, and on Saturday from orange to red at
train stations and airports.
Members of New York's Spanish community gathered across
the street from the United Nations on Saturday to express
their solidarity with the victims of the attacks.
They carried Spanish and American flags as well as
signs demanding an end to terrorism and all violent
activities by the Basque separatist group known as ETA.
Despite evidence suggesting either ETA or a Muslim
group such as al Qaeda could have been behind Europe's
worst bomb attack in 15 years, many Spaniards lashed out
against the Basque guerrillas who have killed some 850
people over four decades in their fight for a separate
homeland.
"We're here to show our solidarity to the victims. We
feel a deep pain, I imagine all of us do, because there
were people from many countries, not only Spaniards and we
all feel a great anger. We're asking that this barbarism
ends, that this cowardly assassinations end," said Carmen
Lombas Garcia, who has lived in America for over four
decades.
The gathering - which was planned as a silent show of
support to the victims and their families, was briefly
interrupted by a heated argument between supporters and a
few anti-government demonstrators who showed up at the
rally.
The protesters accuse Spanish authorities of covering
up evidence suggesting the attacks were carried out by
Islamic extremists. They say the government is all too
eager to point the finger at ETA for political reasons.
"I don't think anyone is taking into account the real
evidence. I read in the papers this morning that a
spokesman for the PP (Popular Party) said that the
Arabic-language tape found in the van was placed by an
enemy of the government, so, they're treating us like
idiots, that's the damn truth, they're treating us like
idiots," said a protester who called himself Juan.
Spanish authorities at first blamed armed Basque
separatists outright for the attacks but have since called
ETA the main suspects and have not ruled out Islamic
militants such as Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Media in the northern Basque region reported that ETA
had denied its involvement in the attack.
Meanwhile, three Moroccans and two Indians were
arrested in Madrid as part of the investigation into the
attacks.
The attacks in Madrid have resulted in beefed up
security in New York. The city has enlisted more officers
to patrol the platforms and stations of the busy subway
system. Many Spaniards believe the attack could be linked
to Spain's support of the US in the Iraqi war.
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