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Thousands Gather in Belgium's Molenbeek to Commemorate Paris Attack Victims

© AFP 2023 / EMMANUEL DUNANDA person lights a candle during a candle light vigil to the victims of the Paris attacks in Brussels' Molenbeek district, on November 18, 2015.
A person lights a candle during a candle light vigil to the victims of the Paris attacks in Brussels' Molenbeek district, on November 18, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Between 2,000 and 2,500 people took to the streets of the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek late on Wednesday to commemorate victims of the Paris attacks, local police said.

Bullet holes are seen in the window of a Japanese restaurant next to the cafe 'La Belle Equipe' at the Rue de Charonne in Paris on November 14, 2015, following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late Friday - Sputnik International
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — The activists from the Molenbeek multinational community, where some 80 percent of residents are immigrants, lit candles in memory of those killed by terrorists in France and all over the world.

On November 13, a series of coordinated attacks at various locations in Paris left 129 dead and over 300 injured.

Following the attacks, Belgian police have carried out a number of anti-terrorist operations in Molenbeek, detaining eight people suspected of links to the Paris attacks. Six of them have been released over lack of evidence.

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