Overview

• About 250 people gathered Friday at the Lafayette statue in Paris’s 8th arrondissement to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk.
• Participants called Kirk their “martyr” and “hero” and held banners bearing his image alongside the slogan “Je Suis Charlie.”
• Event organizer Nicolas Conquer claimed a direct link to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, saying, “The same bullets killed them both.”
• Le Monde noted a clash between Charlie Hebdo’s secular, pro–bodily autonomy stance and messages at the tribute, with no established ideological link to the suspect.
• Authorities have identified 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the main suspect in Kirk’s killing, and his motive remains unclear despite attendees’ assertions that the far left was responsible.