Paris turned off the lights of the Eiffel Tower at 12:45AM on Saturday to pay tribute to the victims of the attack in Egypt’s Minya that left at least 28 people dead. I will turn my lights off tonight, at 12:45 am, to pay tribute to the victims of the Egypt attack. #EiffelTower pic.twitter.com/vBNeQoAI4b — La tour Eiffel (@LaTourEiffel) May 26, 2017 The decision was announced by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, on Twitter and was followed by a similar announcement on the Eiffel Tower’s official Twitter page. International condemnations from across the globe have been voiced following the attack on a bus carrying at least 50 Coptic Christians to a Monastery in Minya. US President Donald Trump, upon whom the Egyptian President called on to take the lead in the fight against terrorism following the attack, released a statement condemning the “merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt”. “Terrorists are engaged in a war against civilization, and it is up to all who value life to confront and defeat this evil,” read the statement released by the White House. “This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our…
Eiffel Tower Goes Dark as World Leaders Condemn Attack in Egypt’s Minya
May 27, 2017
