Paris city hall cancels Olympic torch ceremony
PARIS (AFP) — The Paris mayor on Monday cancelled a ceremony to mark the passage of the Beijing Olympic torch as officials draped a Tibetan flag over the city hall's facade.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe announced the cancellation just after Green party members of the city council hung out the Tibetan flag along with a black banner with the Olympic rings turned into handcuffs.
Hundreds of pro-Tibetan demonstrators disrupted the torch relay through Paris, forcing officials to repeatedly extinguish the flame and take refuge on a bus.
