Panama candlelight vigil marks Paris attack
HUNDREDS of people of many nationalities, wearing tricolor tibbons provided by the French Embassy, gathered in Plaza De Francia in Casco Viejo on Saturday, November 14 for a candlelight vigil calling for “peace and tolerance” following the Friday the 13th terrorist attacks in Paris.
The event was organized by The French Ambassador, Phillipe Cassanave who said that the French people will not be cowed by terroism. Among those who attended and stood in silence following the singing of La Marseillaise were Foreign Minister and Vice-President Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado ambassadors from other countries and Panama’s Supreme Court President Ayu Prado.
Photos by Lourdes Quijada
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