Muslim and Jewish leaders gather at Paris concert hall memorial

[Public Diplomacy Network]

Muslim and Jewish leaders gather at Paris concert hall memorial

It is time to close ‘places of hate’, says imam in group carrying white roses and singing La Marseillaise at scene of massacre

Kim Willsher in Paris

15/11/2015 - French Muslim leaders gathered outside the Bataclan concert hall on Sunday to honour the 89 people who died there in the bloodiest attack by jihadi terrorists France has known.

They carried white roses, which they laid among the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of the French capital’s Jewish community.

As the group stood at the barriers around the music venue where heavily armed gunmen went on a murderous rampage on Friday night, they broke into a ragged rendition of La Marseillaise.

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