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Bogota, Feb 4 (EFE).- They were killed by police or for defending a cause they believed in, and now their faces, painted in vivid colors on the columns of a bridge in Bogota, occupy a place in Colombia's first open-air memory museum.Cars whiz on by on Boyaca Avenue as several street artists, perched on platforms, put the finishing touches on almost fifty portraits that pay tribute to social leaders that were killed in the country as well as victims of police violence. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: COLOMBIA ARTISTS PAINT GRAFFITIS UNDER THE BRIDGE IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, TO HONOR VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE COUNTRY.SOUND BITE: GUSTAVO TREJOS, A DIRECTOR OF TRÍPIDO FOUNDATION (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: We'd like to remind Colombia that the capital punishment in this country does not exist and that every lives matter, whether you're a police officer, a soldier, a former guerilla or a civilian. No one has the right to die and we need to protect every lives.
Several French political figures, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former President François Hollande, are taking part in the ceremonies commemorating the January 2015 attacks and paying tribute to the Charlie Hebdo victims and to police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet. IMAGES
Hundreds of fans attend the wake of former Colombian football player Freddy Rincon in a stadium in Buenaventura, the southwestern port city where he was born. Other fans rode their motorbikes alongside the firetruck that transported Rincon's coffin. The former international midfield star died at age 55 from traffic sustained injuries. IMAGES
Six ans on, and in the middle of the historic trial, French Prime Minister Jean Castex, city officials and representatives of victims associations wrap up the tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris with a ceremony at the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, and presidents of victims' associations pay tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, laying a wreath by the restaurant-bars "La Belle Equipe", "Le Petit Carillon" and "Le Petit Cambodge." IMAGES
Leigh-On-Sea, Oct 16 (EFE/EPA).- Family and friends paid tribute Saturday to Sir David Amess near the crime scene where the MP for Southend West was stabbed to death in the city of Leigh -on-Sea, Great Britain.Amess was reportedly stabbed several times on Friday at a church in Leigh-on-Sea while holding a constituency surgery and later died of his injuries. The police are treating the murder of Amess as a terrorist incident. (Camera: FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA). SHOT LIST: FAMILY AND FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MP DAVID AMESS IN LEIGH-ON-SEA, UK.
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