Muslim leaders remember victims at Paris's Bataclan on European tour against terror

Record ID: 898913

  • Title: Muslim leaders remember victims at Paris's Bataclan on European tour against terror
  • Date: 11th July 2017
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 10, 2017) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** TOUR BUS TRANSPORTING IMAMS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS ARRIVING AT BATACLAN THEATRE WITH SIGN READING (French/Arabic/English): "MUSLIMS MARCH AGAINST TERRORISM" CAMERAS FILMING BUS ARRIVING MAN HANDING WHITE ROSES TO TOUR PARTICIPANTS AS THEY GET OFF BUS SIGN FOR THEATRE READING: "BATACLAN" TOUR ORGANISER AND IMAM OF PARIS SUBURB DRANCY, HASSEN CHALGHOUMI (RIGHT), WEARING SASH FOR MARCH, WALKING WITH CO-ORGANISER AND FRENCH JEWISH WRITER, MAREK HALTER (LEFT), AND OTHERS GROUP LAYING ROSES BENEATH MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR VICTIMS OF BATACLAN ATTACK MEMORIAL PLAQUE READING (French): "In memory of the victims who were killed and wounded in this area on November 13, 2015" VARIOUS OF IMAMS PRAYING NEXT TO PLAQUE (SOUNDBITE) (French) TOUR ORGANISER AND IMAM OF PARIS SUBURB DRANCY, HASSEN CHALGHOUMI, SAYING: "This is the symbol that Islamic State does not want to see. What do these barbarians want? To divide us. Here on November 13 there were over 130 victims. I think that we are all here to show that unity, fraternity, love, peace, are more important and stronger than their hatred and their brutality." JOURNALISTS FILMING TOUR PARTICIPANTS HOLDING BANNER CHALGHOUMI LOOKING AHEAD HALTER BANNER READING (Arabic/English/German/French): "MUSLIMS MARCH AGAINST TERRORISM" TOUR PARTICIPANTS HOLDING BANNER GROUP OF TOUR PARTICIPANTS TALKING MUFTI FROM MARSEILLE, MOHAMED KASSIM ALI, LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (French) MUFTI FROM MARSEILLE, MOHAMED KASSIM ALI, SAYING: "In Berlin, in Belgium and here, we want to show everybody that these barbaric acts of terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. Islam is peace, it's love, it's staying together with all religions." VARIOUS OF TOUR PARTICIPANTS OUTSIDE BATACLAN BUS PARKED IN STREET
  • Embargoed: 25th July 2017 13:45
  • Keywords: faith Bataclan Imams march Muslim attack Paris peace terror France
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016P9WNK7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Dozens of Muslim leaders arrived at Paris's Bataclan concert hall on Tuesday (July 11), the site of the deadly November 13 attacks in 2015, as part of a European tour of recent Islamist attack sites to remember victims and condemn violence.
    Led by the imam of a Paris suburb Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, Muslim clerics and other tour participants from various countries including France, Belgium, Britain and Tunisia stood by a plaque for the victims of the attacks outside the theatre to pray and lay roses.
    On the day of the attack, assailants burst through the Bataclan's main entrance and sprayed automatic gunfire into the crowd as the Californian rock band the Eagles of Death Metal played on stage. They executed some victims and took others hostage.
    The "march against terrorism" began in Paris on Saturday (July 8), continued onto Berlin on Sunday (July 9), Brussels on Monday (July 10) and will move to Nice on July 14 for the first anniversary of the Nice truck attack.
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