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Children attend a candlelight vigil in the town square in Molenbeek, a neighborhood in Brussels with ties to the alleged perpetrators of the Paris attacks.

At a vigil in a Brussels neighborhood, residents proclaim ‘We are not all terrorists here’

November 18, 2015Conflict

The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels is just across a canal from the city center but a world apart. A number of terrorism suspects have ties to the place, including several associated with the atrocities in Paris. Today, the community held a peace vigil to tell the world that not everyone there is a terrorist. To the contrary.

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