Bataclan monument row

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Who wouldn’t want a bunch of flowers, right? Turns out a lot of people, when the flowers in question are a 40-foot sculpture from artist Jeff Koons. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports on the controversy behind the Bouquet of Tulips monument to the victims of the Bataclan attack, which was unveiled Friday in Paris. 

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