NYC mayor visited Paris to honor attack victims

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Colin Daileda
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent part of this week in Paris to honor victims of a series of attacks there earlier this month in which gunmen left 17 victims dead.

The mayor was in Paris for the better part of Tuesday, visiting memorials and the attack sites, before catching a flight back on the same day.

His first stop was a kosher supermarket where Amedy Coulibaly allegedly killed four hostages on Jan. 9, two days after the initial attack.

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De Blasio then visited the memorial outside satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the site of the first attack, when gunmen killed 10 journalists and two police officers on Jan. 7. The mayor also stopped at a nearby site, where one of the police officers was murdered.

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NYC's top official met with his counterpart, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, and toured the Paris's equivalent of City Hall, Hôtel de Ville.

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The two have reportedly developed a friendship, and Hidalgo had visited de Blasio in NYC last year.

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