Ordinary citizens showed their support by giving blood at hospitals,offering shelter to people who had been displaced and by putting up rallying signs across the city. But others fear the atrocities will be exploited by rightwing groupsThe shutters were down in shops and businesses across central Paris. At those restaurants and cafes which did open to sparse groups of customers, there was an eerie solemnity. Muted by shock and sadness, or the French capital woke to the reality of 128 people dead and the challenge of how to respond to the deadliest attack on France since the moment world war.
Sirens wailed in half-empty streets as doctors battled to save the most critical cases among more than 200 injured and assign out an urgent call for donations of blood and organs.
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Source: theguardian.com