{"id":6070,"date":"2015-11-17T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/11\/17\/zeshonderd-studenten-wonen-herdenking-parijs-bij\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:20","slug":"zeshonderd-studenten-wonen-herdenking-parijs-bij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/11\/17\/zeshonderd-studenten-wonen-herdenking-parijs-bij\/","title":{"rendered":"Six hundred students commemorate victims of Paris attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Studenten steken kaarsen aan na herdenking aanslagen in Parijs<\/span><\/p>

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Approximately six hundred people joined the peaceful gathering at Erasmus Plaza on Monday, in honour of the victims of the terrorist attacks on Paris. A group of French students had organized the event on campus Woudestein. There was a speech from rector Huib Pols, a minute of silence and lots of candles.<\/p>\n

First year student IBA Antoine Gianotta and Master student Alexander Larose didn\u2019t know each other until last weekend. The French students seperately took the initiative to hold a commemoration gathering at the university.\u00a0 When they learned of each other\u2019s plans, they decided to join forces. With good results, because an estimated six hundred students and employees came together to commemorate the victims of IS in Paris and other places in the world.<\/p>\n

Not just Paris<\/h3>

\u201cToday, we don\u2019t just remember the victims in Paris, but also those in Beirout and Egypt: everyone can be affected by this terror\u201d, Gianotta said, while he was handing out candles to the students and employees. \u201cWhen I created the event on Facebook, it took less than 30 minutes to get 30 applications. And the support didn\u2019t just came from French people. That was really touching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larose was living in San Francisco during the terror strikes on Charlie Hebdo in january. He went to a spontaneous commemoration there, that made a deep impression on him. When he heard about the strikes in his home country, he decided to create a Facebook event himself.\u00a0 \u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t supposed to be just for the French, I wanted it to be truly international. <\/em>We\u2019re all in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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Een lijst van afbeeldingen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t
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