Paris and Berlin slammed for lack of St Petersburg tribute ‘Do some deaths count more than others?’

Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the British flag in the wake of the terror attack on Westminster in March while the lights of the Eiffel Tower in Paris went off as a mark of respect.

The German capital’s Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the British flag in the wake of the terror attack on Westminster in March while the lights of the Eiffel Tower went off as a mark of respect.

But in Berlin, no such measure has been ordered after a suicide bomber launched a deadly attack killing 14 in St Petersburg, which German officials insist is not a ‘sister city’.

In Paris, the city’s mayor Anne Hidalgo came under pressure to explain why the Eiffel Tower’s lights were not dimmed. One Twitter user asked: ‘Why no Russian flag on the Eiffel Tower? Do some deaths count more than other?’

Source: Paris and Berlin slammed for lack of St Petersburg tribute | Daily Mail Online