Spain hits the streets to protest over Paris triple massacre
Sunday, January 11, 2015 @ 7:56 PM
HUNDREDS of people including French expatriates and tourists, Jews and Muslims joined in protests in Madrid and Valencia today (Sunday) to show their condemnation of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the terrorist hijacks of a shop and a printing firm in Paris.
Whilst Spain's president Mariano Rajoy was in the French capital along with UK Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian president Matteo Renzi and other European leaders at a massive demonstration taking over the city, smaller versions were held throughout Spain at the same time.
At least 400 people each joined the marches in Valencia and Madrid, with the first of the gatherings in the capital seeing a group of French students in the central Puerta del Sol square.
A later demonstration took place at 13.30hrs today at Atocha station, organised by the Arab Culture Foundation (FUNCA), and involved French students, tourists and expatriates, some of them second-generation Algerians born in France, as well as a sizeable number of Muslims and their Imams, and a large number of Jews, given that the second massacre in Paris took place in a Jewish bakery.
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