The Eiffel Tower goes dark in tribute to attack victims

The Eiffel Tower went dark Thursday night in a tribute to those killed Wednesday in an attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

The lights on the 1,063-foot monument went dark at 8 p.m. local time in Paris Thursday for a period of five minutes.

“Our city has been a refuge for writers, philosophers, journalists who were threatened for their ideas,” Paris Mayor Anne Hidaglo told French paper Liberation. “There is no place in Paris for extremist ideas of any sort.”

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