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De Blasio to Spend One Day in Paris

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a press conference after witnessing police being retrained with new guidelines at the Police Academy on December 4, 2014 in the College Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of in New York City.
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After landing in France on Monday night, the mayor will attend seven events related to the shootings at Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher kosher market — including two wreath-layings and a meeting with his Parisian counterpart, Anne Hidalgo — before flying back to New York on Tuesday evening. “[De Blasio] will stand in solidarity with our friends in Paris and across France to send the clear message that together we will fight terrorism and anti-Semitism at every turn, and that crude attempts to intimidate free expression will not succeed,” read a statement announcing the trip, which sounds considerably less relaxing than his last European jaunt.

De Blasio to Spend One Day in Paris