“Yo estaba allí”, podré decir, algún día.

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El día de la gran manifestación, que Le Figaro presenta como la manifestación más grande de la historia de Francia: Marche républicaine: la plus grande manifestation de l’histoire de France.

Le Monde, Journée historique.

Le Point, Marche républicaine : l’historique cortège du boulevard Voltaire.

Tomo a Financial Times la lección que considero esencial, a mi modo de ver: The people of France on Sunday mounted an unforgettable demonstration of unity and resilience in response to the murderous violence in their capital… France’s powerful message – to itself and to the world.

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Marine Le Pen y los mercados del odio.

LA MUJER MÁS BUSCADA DE FRANCIA ESTABA EN SIRIA, TRAS UNA ESCALA EN MADRID.

Charlie-Hebdo, justicia y fuerzas de seguridad multiétnicas.
La Gendarmerie nos comunica qué debemos comunicar.

La doctrina anti terrorista de Hollande. Charlie Hebdo / Busca, captura y ejecución de los asesinos.

Charb, Jeannette Bougrab, la historia de amor emblemática de la tragedia de Charlie Hebdo.
Morir por las ideas: Sócrates, Jesús, Charlie Hebdo.
“Papá se ha ido. Wolinski queda”.
“Ben Laden no ha muerto”.
Matanza en Charlie Hebdo: el dibujo profético.

Financial Times, 11 / 12 enero 2015.

France’s powerful message – to itself and to the world

The people of France on Sunday mounted an unforgettable demonstration of unity and resilience in response to the murderous violence in their capital. After last week’s savage attacks in Paris, the sea of humanity which flowed on to the streets on Sunday was a moving show of defiance and resistance. France’s message to itself, and to the world, is unmistakable. It will not surrender the basic values, freedom of expression and tolerance, that are foundations of the republic.
This was not just a historic day for the French. No less remarkable was the attendance of 50 government leaders from across the world. All wanted to express their solidarity with the French people at a dreadful moment in the Fifth Republic’s history. But their presence was also a recognition that the violence which afflicted Paris last week is a worldwide phenomenon. It has hit other cities – London, Brussels, Boston, Ottawa and Sydney – and will doubtless afflict more.
After a week of tragedy, all European leaders will now have to start focusing on the tough challenges ahead. The most immediate tasks are for President François Hollande and the mainstream French political elite. They must do all they can to maintain – and harness – the display of unity that was on show on Sunday and not allow it to slide into political recriminations and tensions.
This is a testing, perhaps dangerous, time for community relations in France. In the aftermath of last week’s murder of 17 people, the far right National Front may grow in support as it seeks to scapegoat France’s Muslim population, the largest in any European state. It is vital that France’s main political leaders do not respond by flirting with the politics of the far-right, making knee-jerk gestures on law and order. Last week’s attacks, like many such atrocities, may have been conducted in the name of Islam. But it was heartening to see French Muslims at Sunday’s demonstration.
France, like all European governments, will want to re-examine its security capability in the aftermath of last week’s attacks. The brothers who conducted these killings were known to the police and had links with Yemen – and yet they managed to build up an arms cache. The French authorities will have to explain to their own citizens how such a lapse could have happened.
However, the challenge posed by criminals who claim to act in the name of Islam will not be overcome by security policy alone. It requires government agencies to engage painstakingly with Muslim communities, working to deradicalise young people of Islamic faith who might slide into attack planning. No country has had a particularly successful record when it comes to de-radicalisation – even Britain which has made it a focus of policy. But France needs to do more to prevent militant young Muslims living in the banlieues from contemplating violence.
Over the last 14 years, the US, Spain and Britain have been among the western states scarred by acts of so-called “jihadism.” Now France joins their ranks. In the last decade, the great mistake that the Americans and British made was to respond to such violence by declaring that they were engaged in “a war on terror.” The blunt response of the Bush and Blair administrations seriously inflamed tensions.
There can be no compromise with the violence we have seen in France in the last week. But the response of the country’s politicians must be guided first and foremost by the display of quiet determination they have just seen on the streets of Paris.

Las negritas son mías.