(MENAFN- The Peninsula) More than 20,000 people stood for France's national anthem Saturday at a Montreal hockey game, to pay respects to the 17 people killed in deadly attacks by Islamists.
Just before the face-off between the Canadians and the Pittsburgh Penguins, the lights were dimmed and the Bell Centre crowd took in 'La Marseillaise,' as France's blue white and red colors were projected like a giant flag over the ice.
Several marches to show solidarity with France were planned in Canada: one in Quebec City Sunday with premier Philippe Couillard to lead the crowd, and another in Montreal where thousands are expected.
The three-day killing spree in France began Wednesday with the massacre at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that saw Cherif and Said Kouachi massacre 12 people, including some of the country's best-known cartoonists.
A day later, Amedy Coulibaly shot dead a policewoman. He later stormed a Jewish supermarket on the eastern fringes of the capital, taking terrified shoppers hostage hours before the Jewish Sabbath, and killing four.
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