A Potemkin gathering of world leaders in Paris
By Bill Van Auken
14 January 2015
A photograph posted on social media has revealed that the ?world leaders? who had supposedly led the march in Paris on January 11, in the aftermath of the attack on the offices of
Charlie Hebdo, were in reality assembled for a massive staged photo-op.
The photo depicting the fictitious participation of world leaders in the Paris Charlie
Hebdo demonstration
While in the media, photos and video of the leaders were almost invariably angled to give the appearance of massive crowds in their wake, one shot taken from above shows them standing bunched tightly together in barely a dozen rows in an empty street, cordoned off from the marchers by a heavy ring of security.
Excerpt/photo from,and read more at:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/14/pari-j14.html