A sign that reads “Islam does not demand to kill the innocent” is plastered on a shuttered shop in the 11th district of Paris on Sunday. “I mean, you never know. Not all life but enough to create a sense of emptiness.On sombre streets, scattered with the dead leaves of autumn, Parisians went through the motions of trying to pick up where they left off before suicide attackers slaughtered 129 people, the latest official count.As they always do, people still sat and smoked at the sidewalk tables of cafes, but did so knowing that dozens were gunned down and killed doing exactly that just hours before.“I’m scared,” said Patricia Martinot, a cleaner, who still mustered the courage to take her dog out for his morning walk.

The Eiffel Tower closed and, in doing so, became a 324-metre tall symbol of how much is changed. The indiscriminate taking of so many lives squeezed life out of Paris itself. Although far from extinguished, the City of Light is now unmistakably dimmed. A retired lawyer, a fashion designer, a musician — people interviewed at random — all insisted: Life must go on, no surrender to terror.“I wouldn’t sit outside,” waitress Flora Jobert said as she https://www.hoja.com.cn/product/led-marker-clearance-lights/ China wholesale truck side marker lights served a thick espresso, advising her customer to shelter inside.

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