Terror in France

Schools, markets, museums and other tourist sites across the greater Paris area were closed and sporting fixtures were cancelled on the orders of the city or national authorities. “All city facilities are closed today,” Paris City Hall said on its website. The list comprised schools, museums, libraries, sports halls, swimming pools, tennis courts, food markets and district town halls. Only civil registration offices, to record marriages, will be open, it said, adding that security would be beefed up at town halls. Parisians are lining up for hours to give blood, piling flowers and notes and spilling tears outside a music hall where scores of people were killed by rampaging suicide bombers who shattered the peace of the French capital.