The lights went out at the Eiffel Tower on Thursday night, as Paris paid a one-minute tribute to murdered journalists.

November 2 marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

Members of NGO Reporters Without Borders stood at Place de Varsovie, the square opposite the Eiffel Tower, and held up posters with pictures of murdered journalists, as the lights were turned off at 6.30pm. 

RSF says that 62 journalists have been killed across the world this year alone, with a further 337 imprisoned. The NGO estimates that 90 per cent of crimes of violence against journalists go unpunished.

Among those posters was one of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered in a car bomb explosion in October 2017.