French Embassy in Costa Rica to hold candlelight vigil for Paris victims Monday evening

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November 16^th, 2015 (ICR News) The French Embassy in Costa Rica will hold a candlelight vigil in honor of the victims of the Friday terrorist attacks in Paris.

The vigil will be held in Parque Francia in Barrio Escalante in San Jose on Monday, beginning at 5:30 pm.

The public is encouraged to bring flowers and white candles.

The attacks in Paris on Friday left at least 129 confirmed dead, and at least 350 injured, many of them seriously.

Around the world, solidarity with Paris

Flags over the United States capitol flew at half staff Sunday as a tribute to the 132 victims of Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris at a nightclub, sports stadium and several restaurants.

Washingtonians also paid their respects at a makeshift memorial in front of the French embassy, leaving flowers and bottles of wine in tribute – and lighting candles. Similar scenes took place at French embassies around the world in Istanbul, Berlin, Moscow and Prague, among others.

As many as 20,000 people gathered in front of the French embassy in Copenhagan, Denmark to show their respect for the victims of the attacks

Among the dead in Paris was at least one American as well as foreign nationals from at least 13 other countries around the world. A number of the people killed were from Muslim countries, including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Portugal lost two of its citizens. One was a driver who had just dropped off passengers at the Stade de France. Citizens from Chile and Mexico also died in the attacks. Two Brazilians were wounded. Two Romanians were killed as well as people from Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

In Jerusalem, the old city walls appeared in red, white and blue, the colors of the French flag. Similarly, the world’s tallest building in Dubai – the Burj Khalifa – was capped with red, white and blue lights. Bratislava castle wore horizontal red, white and blue stripes. Those on Tokyo’s Skytree and Bogota’s Colpatria tower were stacked up vertically.

But the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris was a black tower as its lights were turned off. The lights of the Trevi Fountain in Rome also were off.

In Milan, Italy an electronic billboard read “Je Suis Paris.”

Five thousand people marched in silence in Montreal, Canada. “We will not cede to intimidation,” Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre broke the silence to cheers when the marchers arrived at the French consulate. “We will protect our values of democracy and freedom, and form a common front against hate and intolerance.”

VOA’s Molly McKitterick contributed to this report.

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Ben
The People of France never cried when 100.000 Iraq citizens died by US goverment BS war called the IRAQ war. France should thank the US goverment they caused this problem in the middle east. Cause and effect.
- http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
  Ben, the people of France held massive demonstrations against the Iraq war both during the lead-up to the war and while the war was ongoing.
  In fact, Ben, so did MANY people in the United States.
  If one does not separate the “people” – meaning the innocent civilian citizens of a country – from the politics and/or mistakes of their governments – one is really no different than the terrorists that carried out the attacks on Friday.
  - Ben
    Big deal French demonstration against the IRAQ war did against the mighty US war machine. The US wants to be the world power by any means. Iraq war did play a role come on TIM.
    - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
      Really? Why didn’t the US take over Iraqi oil when we left? We didn’t. It is theirs and they are free to sell it to whoever they want. Out of dozens of major oil fields in Iraq, only one single American company received a contract on 2 fields, and they are sub-prime fields at the end of the day. The rest went to at least 12 other countries.
- http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
  PS – let me add one more thing, Ben. Before I say this however, let me note that I was 100% percent against the invasion of Iraq, BEFORE the war even started. Now, that said.
  The VAST majority (probably around 80 percent) of civilians that were killed during the Iraq war were NOT killed by US or coalition troops. Period.
  They were killed by local militias fighting for territory, jihadist groups both from inside Iraq and outside Iraq that wanted to establish an Islamic form of government in the country after the overthrow of Saddam, etc.
  The people that were blowing up crowded markets with car bombs, the people that would slaughter an entire neighborhood of Muslims who believe slightly different than they do (the Sunnis vs. the Shiites), the ones who bombed mosques during worship – that was NOT US soldiers doing that.
  The people planting roadside bombs that killed more Iraqis than they killed US troops – those were foreign fighters from neighboring countries.
  Did US soldiers do some bad things in Iraq? Of course. And guess what the US military did to many of them? Lock them up in prison for many years afterwards. But It is, after all, war, and some soldiers from either side in a war eventually “lose it.” But the vast majority of civilian deaths in Iraq didn’t die at the hands of the US. US soldiers weren’t just riding around gunning down every civilian that they saw, or intentionally bombing crowded markets packed with civilians.
  Blaming the huge civilian body count on the US is a little unfair, unless one just argues that “had you never invaded, they never would have started killing each other,” which may be true, but still. It isn’t completely fair.
  - dr meno
    Over a million were killed from US and Euro sanctions, they couldn’t get medicine, health supplies, etc.
    - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
      Mr Meno – I like you and we have chatted on the phone as I am sure you recall. I do not argue the point that US interference, embargoes, etc. in the region have fueled a lot of this resentment, and thus extremism. I only intend to set the record straight regarding the actions of actual US service members who were on the ground during the Iraq war. The US was not conducting a wholesale slaughter of innocent Iraqis during the war, and US soldiers were not just going around gunning down innocent civilians. If the true goal was to just slaughter innocents, there would have been easier ways to do it. Most US service members on the ground in Iraq were acting as police trying to stop the people from killing each OTHER, not us. I can speak of this first-hand, just FYI.
      Please do note that is my only point. It is not a political one, it is just one of getting the facts straight. US service on the ground were not just riding around in APC’s and mowing down innocent civilians with automatic gunfire. Period. The war itself? – Should have never, ever, have happened.
      - dr meno
        Duely noted sir. Always respect our communication. Remember though, Snowden revelled that video of the military gunning down people just for fun. And don’t forget the abuses in the Abu Grave and other prisons. (spelling). Just for fun.
        Also I like to stimulate the conversation on your site.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        I do not deny that abuses occurred in Iraq. All that I have a problem with is attributing all of the civilian deaths to US and coalition forces, because it simply isn’t true. I would have loved to see the Abu Gahraib perpetrators tortured to death.
      - zzzzz
        With all due respect, the damage is probably a lot worse then we will ever know.
        Sometimes it isn’t direct overt military intervention by the US but through third parties enabled either by direct aid and intervention or through a back door policies. The chaos and total destruction of Iraq is completely the fault of the US maybe not Jimmy’s mom who makes apple pie but the country as a political entity
        Just because you and many others are good guys (and i mean that sincerely) doesn’t mean that there wasn’t massive indiscriminate killing and that there was a system to prevent that information from reaching the media. As Bush made publicly clear he would institute a removal of media and they were also targeted.
        Middle east societies may be warring all on their own BUT the west is directly to blame for propping up the worse dictators imaginable and creating and maintaining a state of complete chaos and preventing these societies from normalizing.
        There is something missing form the discussion and that is every power we support is perpetuating injustice.
        Violence begets violence and we must denounce it, always and denounce our complicity.
      - SDPUS
        Sadly, I think that is a fair analysis of the reality of the situation, zzzz. To add to your narrative: http://billmoyers.com/2015/11/16/we-got-scammed-by-government-contractors-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
      - zzzzz
        thanks for the excellent piece.
        i think we forgot about all that cash…
        Plus, Bill Moyers is a super credible guy.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        I do not disagree with a single statement in your comment, just so you know. My previous comments were extremely limited in scope, in reference only to the conduct of 95% of the actual US troops on the ground and their conduct during the conflict. Nothing more, nothing less.
        I do not deny for a second that the US bears a huge responsibility for the violence and chaos in the middle east.
        I just feel it pertinent once in a while to remind people that a decent majority of US soldiers in Iraq returned without ever having fired a single shot, let alone taking the life of anyone.
      - zzzzz
        yeah….that’s true
        peace out
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        While the video you mention is indeed disgusting, especially to me as a journalist (as they turned out to be journalists) – in that exact same area less than an hour before US forces had came under RPG attacks, and whatever some of these guys were carrying around on their backs (likely, camera tripods) from the air looked to be RPGs, and if you listen to the gunners in the aircraft, it is clear that while YES they were BLOODSHIRTY – I don’t deny that, I think they honestly believed the items being carried by these people were weapons and that they may have been connected to the earlier attack that had kill 4 US service members.
        Again, I only say this: those helicopters could fly over entire neighborhoods and kill everyone and every living thing in sight, right?
        They didn’t do that. The serviceman on that helicopter in their own minds actually BELIEVED that these were the people that killed 4 US servicemen just an hour prior. It was a mistake, of course, but it cannot be compared to the attacks in Paris where the attackers knew FULL WELL that they were gunning down 100 percent innocent civilians.
        Why didn’t they attack a French military base, even in France, instead?
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        My only point in all of this is, and believe me I sympathize to some degree with the Arab world over Western interference, especially over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – No matter what though, we can never, ever condone acts of complete violence against 100 percent innocent citizens of any country like happened on Friday, ever, period. Long Live France.
      - Ben
        Tim
        I will not be on you site anymore. I taken my comments off.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        I have never had a problem with you Ben, until you seemingly started siding with people who gunned down over 100 innocent people in Paris and blaming it on the US war in Iraq – a claim, by the way, that not even ISIS is making (that it was due to the war in Iraq). And then inventing a story behind your false claims of actually having been there. You weren’t, let’s just be honest.
        In not even a single comment here have you even wished your condolences to the families of the innocents who lost their lives in Paris on Friday.
        You just want to keep railing about the US imperialists (which is the only reason that Costa Rica can not have an Army with that large Nica Army on your border).
        If the US didn’t exist Costa Rica would need a military, you and I both know that.
        If you choose to unsubscribe from ICR as a result of me calling you out on your obviously false claims, so be it. The truth hurts, but at ICR we are all about the truth, regardless of who we offend.
        You have never stepped one foot in Iraq, prove me otherwise and I will seriously pay you 1 million colones. Challenge made.
      - Andrew
        Thank you Tim!
        Where I come from we call that addition by subtraction!
        Vive La Fance!
        God Bless America!
        Such a shame that some choose to use the tragedy in Paris as a conduit to spew their anti-America sentiment.
        I was in Connecticut-30 minutes from Ground Zero- on 9/11. I hope no USA haters and misinformed Ticos ever have to endur a tragedy like that or the one that occurred Friday in Paris….
      - Truth Talker
        9/11 happened in New york not in Connecticut you dum shit. Tim please call this guy out like you did Ben.
      - Truth Talker
        I hope Ben show up at your apt to show his passport.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        A scanned copy of his visa from the Coalition Authority in Iraq, stamped in his passport and sent to [email protected] will earn him 1 million colones. I give my 100 percent word on this, and this is not ICR money, this is my personal money, as I no longer own ICR, I am the salaried Editor-in-Chief at this point. This is a personal challenge and it will cost me nearly a month’s salary. Better yet, he can scan it and post it here in the comments.
      - Truth Talker
        Tim
        I think your a little hard on Ben. I guess you really don’t give a shit. I guess ICR is now just a copy and paste web site with no real people behind it. Very sad the comment’s you wrote.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        Copy and paste website? You are on the wrong site, obviously.
        As a person using the moniker of “Truth Talker” I would expect you to above all, respect the truth and admonish those who lie. Ben has never step foot in Iraq, I can promise you that, from a person who has actually been there.
        It is now “sad” to call someone out as a liar? Isn’t that what you would actually expect of a journalist?
        By the way, ICR did not delete his comments above – he did that on his own. And further deleted his Disqus account. He is still welcome to comment here and he has in no way, whatsoever been banned or restricted from commenting on this site. He chose to do so.
        You would expect a “Truth Talker” such as yourself to hold people accountable to the “stories” they tell as a good thing.
      - Andrew
        Ben has a little hard on?
        That explains it!
  - Ben
    Tim
    France is very sad but the US and Nato getting involved in other countries show’s lack of knowledge of the societies they are trying to bring in a false freedom. I have been to Iraq twice and know more about this subject than most. Iraq lost lots of Children and seniors that where killed by US forces. I can blame US citizen’s because they never stand up against anything until its to late. France is cause and effect of the Iraq war. Recon’s think war is okay and can justify war and children being killed. The US needs to stay out of nation building and fix there own dam problems. Iraq,Syria,Libya,Yemen est are now just big time mess and worse than ever. Soon Iran will be on the Table for War how will the US justify a war with IRAN.
    - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
      Ben, I don’t mean to call you out here, but I highly doubt you were in Iraq during the war. If you had been, you would have witnessed who was doing most of the killing first-hand, as I did.
    - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
      Ben, I am curious as to when you were in Iraq and why.
      - Ben
        My sister is doctor and i went with her twice to Iraq to help. I was in in Iraq August 2010 and October 2011. Maybe one day i will show a few picture’s of what i saw it would blow your mind’s of the children with no arms and no legs my sister tried to help. I saw enough and talked to enough people in IRAQ that it opened my eyes to many things. My sister been to Iraq 6 times and she helps lots of Children and seniors.
      - http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
        I sincerely doubt that you were ever in Iraq, but lets assume you were. You do realize that most of those children with no arms and no legs were NOT the result of US bombing, but of insurgent bombings, right? The locals never went on TV and showed their dead kids though when it was insurgents, because they didn’t know any better. They didn’t know they had fighters from Yemen in their country blowing shit up. So every time something blew up it was the “Americans.” You really need to stop inventing a life you never lived. Had you ever once in your life stepped foot in Iraq you would know EXACTLY what the hell I am talking about.
        And also, those Iraqis who thought that their kids had been injured by American bombs? Guess where they took their kids IMMEDIATELY for medical treatment? to US Army Hospitals because many of the local hospitals would actually DEMAND MONEY before treating their kids.
- dr meno
  Ben I support your comment. You are correct.
  - Ben
    I am getting use to US citizens saying nasty thing to me online but my views are my views and your views are your views. I agree with you 100%. The US is done the only ones that don’t see it is US citizens.
Andrew
Ben: Don’t let the truth get in the way of your non-sensical anti-American diatribes. I really get a kick out of them. You write like a third grader, but I can usuallly decipher what you are trying to say. Most of the time it comes across as “I am a jealous little misinformed third world bitch. As I said before, Ben: it is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt! Keep up the good work. LOL!
- Truth Talker
  You are not very nice.
  - Andrew
    Actually Truth Talker, I am very nice. I won’t, however, sit silent as Ben uses the tragedy in Paris as a means to further his anti-American agenda. Hopefully his venomous words are gone from here for good. Have a lovely day!
    - Truth Talker
      I want to meet you. Where you at?
      - Andrew
        Actually Greenwich Connecticut IS 30 miles from the World Trade Center Twin Towers. There are actually towns in New Jersey that are 5-10 miles from WTC.
        Perhaps you are geographically challenged?. You can find me here:
        1. Fly into NYC Lagauardia Airport.
        2. Follow signs for Bronx Whitestone Bridge.
        3. Pay toll and cross bridge.
        4. Follow signs for I-95 North.
        5. Stay on I-95 North for 25 miles.
        6. Get off at exit 3- Arch Street.
        7. Follow signs to Metro North Train station. I can meet you there.
        OR
        You can fly into NYCs Kennedy airport and follow directions to Bronx Whitestone Bridge.
        Repeat steps 3-7.
        If you are a woman and attractive, cool.
        If you are a dude, sorry, I’m 100 percent hetero.
        See you soon.
      - Andrew
        You sure didn’t stay way for very long Ben, er, um I mean Truth Teller. Spelling dumb “dum” and comments “comment’s” was a dead giveaway. Welcum bak.
      - Andrew
        You’ve been exposed as a sad, sick liar Ben.
        I’m not playing your sad game anymore.
        You’re going to have to play with yourself now.
        I suspect you’re used to that and rather enjoy it?
        LOL!
      - Andrew
        The “Stolen Valor Act of 2005″ makes it a crime for frauds to claim military service when IN FACT no military service was done.
        Accordingly, I emailed a friend at the US Department of State this morning.
        Good luck Ben/Truth Teller.
dr meno
Why don’t they have a vigil for the innocent people they killed in Syria. QUIT bombing other countries. Return your aircraft carrier.
- prdatki
  There are no innocent Moslems.
dr meno
Gladio B Ops. Nato’s Secret Army. Analysis: Paris Attacks. Attackers Had Their Passports on Them?
https://youtu.be/kJCv3F9ORz4
http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
Very, very sad that none of the comments here even acknowledge the innocent lives that were lost in Paris. I am speechless and embarrassed of our commenters who have left me even wondering why in the hell I do this job. I used to think I did it for you lot. Now I am simply embarrassed, honestly, by the comments here.
Truth Talker
I served in Iraq and saw some nasty thing happened over there. Ben was right. The France thing is bad but the US did some nasty stuff to the Iraq people i know. Tim you want to see my passport?
- http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
  Truth Talker, I never once denied that the US did some “nasty stuff” in Iraq. In fact I admitted it twice.
  My only point being is that the absolute 100 percent targeting of civilians, like what happened in Paris, has to be universally condemned by everyone on this planet, period!
  Not try to “justify” it based on anything, period. You would NOT be saying exactly the same thing, if it was YOUR mother or sister gunned down on Friday while trying to eat her dinner out with friends.
- http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams
  @thankgetridoffeds:disqus – A passport and your DoD tag would be great. No reward in your case though, that was special for Ben.

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