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Saturday, November 14, 2015
EU calls for minute of silence for Paris victims
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe leaders of the European Union nations are calling for a minute of silence across the 28-nation bloc on Monday in memory of the victims of the Paris terror attacks.
In Saturday’s joint statement, the leaders say Europeans will always remember Friday, November 13, “as a European day of mourning” and invite the EU’s 510 million people to mark their solidarity at noon Monday.
“This shameful act of terrorism will only achieve the opposite of its purpose, which was to divide, frighten and sow hatred,” they say. “Good is stronger than evil. Everything that can be done at the European level to make France safe will be done. We will do what is necessary to defeat extremism, terrorism and hatred.”
They call Friday’s events “an attack against us all.”
–AP
The Times of Israel Community.