Kelvin Cobaris, a local clergyman, consoles Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, an Orlando gay-rights advocate, as they arrive on the scene near where a mass shooting occcured in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) MAGS OUT, NO SALESPhoto: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel viaAP
Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people have been wounded, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Jermaine Towns, left, and Brandon Shuford wait down the street from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. Towns said his brother was in the club at the time. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people have been wounded, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, right, is comforted by an Orlando Police officer after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – JUNE 12: Orlando police officers seen outside of Pulse nightclub after a fatal shooting and hostage situation on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The suspected shooter, Omar Mateen, was shot and killed by police. 50 people are reported dead and 53 were injured. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
Kelvin Cobaris, a local clergyman, consoles Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, an Orlando gay-rights advocate, as they arrive on the scene near where a mass shooting occcured in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) MAGS OUT, NO SALES
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – JUNE 12: A man holds a sign in support of the victims of the terror attack at gay nightclub Pulse on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The suspected shooter, Omar Mateen, was shot and killed by police. 50 people are reported dead and 53 were injured in what is now the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – JUNE 12: Long lines of people wait at the OneBlood Donation Center to donate blood for the injured victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The suspected shooter, Omar Mateen, was shot and killed by police. 50 people are reported dead and 53 were injured in what is now the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
Law enforcement officials work at the Pulse nightclub following a fatal shooting Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. . (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
Police officials investigate the back of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at the nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
PHILADELPHIA, PA – JUNE 12: Austin Ellis, a member of Metropolitan Community Church, carries a cross with a sign in memory of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting as he marches in the 2016 Gay Pride Parade on June 12, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 50 people were killed and 53 injured at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)
Rickey Swanson arranges a bouquet of flowers at a memorial with 50 candles for at least 50 people gunned down at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., during the Gay Pride Parade in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Mindy Schauer/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
Le réveil a été douloureux à Orlando, en Floride, alors qu’au moins 50 personnes ont été tuées et 53 autres blessées dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche dans une fusillade à l’intérieur de la discothèque Pulse, un établissement qui accueille une clientèle gaie. Il s’agit de la tuerie la plus meurtrière de l’histoire des États-Unis.
Quelques minutes avant de passer à l’acte, le présumé tireur, Omar Mateen, un Américain de 29 ans d’origine afghane, avait prêté allégeance au groupe État islamique dans un appel passé au 911. L’organisation terroriste a par ailleurs revendiqué l’attaque.
Tout au long de la journée les citoyens consternaient se recueillaient. Certains se sont pressés dans les succursales locales de One Blood, pour donner leur sang afin d’aider les victimes de la fusillade.
Par ailleurs, de nombreux messages de soutien aux victimes abondaient dans les différents défilés de la fierté gaie qui se tenaient dimanche aux États-Unis.
