New minute of silence for Germanwings victims

North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Pfalz were the only governments to have declared an official minute of silence across the state at 10:53 am, the time the plane went down. People at the state parliament in Düsseldorf stopped in their tracks:

Das Land steht weiter still. Bewegende Schweigeminute im #ltnrw. pic.twitter.com/qmGBs3DnK1

— Jan Miebach (@JanMie) March 26, 2015

Meanwhile in the town of Haltern, not far from Düsseldorf, people stopped in the street to remember the victims – especially the group of young children and teachers from the town killed on their way home from an exchange visit:

Schweigeminute in der Fussgängerzone. #Haltern steht still. #Germanwings #4U9525 pic.twitter.com/gbQJKelZ6l

— DIE WELT (@welt) March 26, 2015

At Düsseldorf airport, a makeshift memorial to those killed had grown and spread to include hundreds of candles, flowers and written tributes:

bizarr, bedrückend, berührend. Schweigeminute in #dus #4U9525 ich bin traurig. pic.twitter.com/RW2jLux5Es

— michajung (@michajung) March 26, 2015

At the German Football Association national Under-17s' squad match against Italy, there was a minute of silence before kickoff:

#U17: Schweigeminute bei #GERITA für die Opfer des Fluges #4U9525. pic.twitter.com/jkHhW1eGP4

— DFB-Junioren (@DFB_Junioren) March 26, 2015

And earlier in the day, as the Bundestag (German parliament) began its work, the chamber fell silent for a minute, with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier front and centre:

#Merkel, #Gabriel und #Steinmeier bei #Schweigeminute für die Opfer von Flug #4U9525 im #Bundestag. #Germanwings pic.twitter.com/4Ey1do0CnQ

— Auswärtiges Amt (@AuswaertigesAmt) March 26, 2015

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