Berlin and Paris stand in solidarity with London as Brandenburg Gate lights up in Union Flag colours while the Eiffel Tower goes dark 24 hours after terror atrocity
CITIES around the world have paid their respects to the victims of the London terror attack hours after seven people were killed and a further 48 injured by armed extremists in the capital.
Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the Union Jack flag last night, while people laid floral tributes and lit candles outside the British Embassy in the German city.
Across the border in France, the Eiffel Tower turned its lights out in a mark of respect for the victims.
The plans were announced in a messaged posted on the Twitter account for the French landmark, which said: “At 12:45 am, I will turn my lights off to pay tribute to the victims of the. #EiffelTower”.
The same gesture was made earlier in the week for the victims of the terror attacks in Kabul and Baghdad, and for those of the Manchester Arena atrocity on May 22.
A Union Jack flag was projected onto a fountain in Croatian capital Zagreb, and a young couple were caught on camera kissing in front of the display.
Meanwhile the One Love charity concert headlined by Ariana Grande to raise money for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund was opened with a minute’s silence.
Marcus Mumford of British band Mumford and Sons called on the 50,000 fans in Old Trafford football ground to hold their silence “after recent events in Manchester, London and around the world”.
He ended the silence by saying: “Let’s not be afraid.”
Fans at the concert, which saw the likes of Coldplay, The Black Eyed Peas and Justin Bieber perform, also carried homemade signs and posters paying tribute to the dead.
In London, while the site of Saturday’s attack remained closed off my heavily armed police, many laid flowers nearby in memory of the victims.
Posters have been plastered over the streets surround the site of the attack emblazoned with “ISIS will lose”, ‘”love will win” and “turn to love”.
Other posters put up by defiant Londoners read “London, dare to keep on loving”.
What we know so far:
- ISIS has claimed responsibility after a van ploughed through pedestrians on London Bridge just after 10pm on Saturday
- Three jihadists wearing fake bomb vests began knifing bystanders and pub-goers
- Staff at one pub barricaded the doors as the attackers tried to storm the building before the three terrorists were shot dead
- Member of the public caught in the crossfire as cops fired being treated in hospital
- At least seven victims were killed and 48 people were injured with 21 critical
- The first victim was named as Canadian national Christine Archibald, a charity worker from British Columbia
- Theresa May chaired a Cobra meeting before declaring ‘enough is enough’
- Home Secretary Amber Rudd said police believe they have ‘all the main perpetrators’ and are confident they were radical Islamic terrorists
- Cops raid block of flats in Barking, East London, reportedly home to one of the attackers, and arrest 12 as well as sealing off East Ham flat
- Police appealed for witnesses
- All the main political parties aside from UKIP suspended campaigning as Mrs May confirmed the election will go ahead
- Sick ISIS thugs celebrated attack and called for more atrocities
- Sadiq Khan confirms London Bridge Underground and National Rail stations will reopen and operate services today
