PARIS — Mayor de Blasio paid respects Tuesday to the victims of the dual terrorist massacres here and told Parisians that New Yorkers have “walked in the same shoes.”
De Blasio left three wreaths around the City of Light — at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, at the site where French police office Ahmed Merabet was executed and at the kosher supermarket where four shoppers were murdered days after the magazine attack.
“We share the same values, it’s an honor to be here,” de Blasio said in between stops on this whirlwind, one-day visit.
“Paris and New York City have walked in the same shoes [as victims of terrorism].”
At the kosher market Hyper Casher, de Blasio was met by store chain owner Michel Emsalem, whose wife and two daughters live in New York.
He said New York is clearly a safer city than Paris.
“Yes, I feel my children are much more secure in New York,” Emsalem told The Post. “Maybe [New York is] more protective.”
Emsalem’s wife is the CEO of the clothing designer Maje.
“She’s [my wife] proud to live in New York,” Emsalem said. “She’s very proud to be in America.”
De Blasio told a local Jewish leader, Rabbi Levi Matusof, that his home in Brooklyn is not far from the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters, where a knife -wielding mad man stabbed a young Yeshiva in December.
“I think what’s important is that the mayor is here today fighting terrorism and anti-semitism,” Matusof said.
“And combating all extremism, fascism, radicalism. Most importantly we are continuing in Paris, in France, the Jewish flag is up and rising. We’re not putting down our hands.”
Matusof said he’s heartened to know: “We have a lot of friends all over New York, all over the world.”
The mayor also visited Paris City Hall, a Jewish school near the Charlie Hebdo attack and a Muslim cultural center where bloodthirsty brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi once lived as foster children.