France’s ambassador to Italy on Sunday turned off the Christmas tree lights in Rome‘s Piazza Venezia to mark one month since the Paris attacks.
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The lights in the central square, just a stone’s throw from the Colosseum, went dark as Ambassador Catherine Colonna and Rome’s extraordinary commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca led a ceremony paying tribute to those who lost their lives last month.
The tree was then lit back up with the colours of the French and Italian national flags.
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