Within an hour of landing in Paris, President Obama made an impromptu
stop early Monday morning at the Bataclan theater, one of the sites
targeted by terrorists in the deadly Paris attacks earlier this month.
Accompanied by French President Hollande and Parisian Mayor Anne
Hidalgo, Obama laid a single white flower, bowed his head and stood in
silence at a candle-laden memorial outside the theater, the deadliest
site in the attacks that killed 130 people.
The president's visit to Paris comes just two weeks after France's
capital city was rocked by the terror attacks. His official business on
the trip is to attend an international climate conference, aiming to
secure a deal to limit the rise of global warming.
But terrorism
and the fight against ISIS will loom large over the two days of events
the president will attend. Last week, the president said the climate
conference would serve as a "powerful rebuke to the terrorists" as over
150 world leaders committed to attend the summit despite the terror
attacks that ravaged France's capital city.
On Monday evening, President Obama and Hollande are scheduled to meet
one-on-one for dinner in Paris where the two men will discuss climate
change and the strategy to combat ISIS.
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