ASSEMBLY Members from Fermanagh-south Tyrone joined other representatives this week in observing a minute's silence at Stormont in honour of those killed and injured in the Paris attacks.

Multiple attacks by Islamic militants on Friday left scores of people dead and critically injured.

Democratic Unionist MLAs Arlene Foster and Maurice Morrow and Sinn Fein MLAs Phil Flanagan, Sean Lynch and Bronwyn McGahan bowed their heads during the event in the Great Hall. Former Ulster Unionist MLA Tom Elliott also participated in the act of remembrance.

Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt, who raised the issue as a Matter of the Day, said Paris had been “subjected to a most vicious and vile terrorist attack by religious extremists.”

First Minister Peter Robinson spoke of his “revulsion and horror at the evil bloodbath in Paris.”

“Those of my vintage will vividly remember from our country's dark past all the emotions felt last Friday by the population of Paris: the desolation, the anxiety for friends and relatives who were in the area of the attacks, the grieving for victims and the apprehension for the future,” he said.

Sinn Fein's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said: “We send our love and respect to the people of the wounded city of Paris, with which we enjoy close ties of history, heritage, commerce and community. Our thoughts this morning are with all victims of the global wars that engulf us today.”

New SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: “These attacks, no matter where they happen, the scale of the destruction or the culprit, are an attack on all of us who value the primacy and power of peace.”

TUV leader Jim Allister talked of the “unmitigated evil that launched bombs to kill”, saying it was “the same unmitigated evil that we experienced in La Mon and, yes, even in the most sacred of places, a remembrance service in Enniskillen.” “Terrorists, all terrorists, are evil and remain evil,” he said.