Nine years after the murder of renowned Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink—the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul—, a memorial event was also held Tuesday outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in Strasbourg, France.

About one dozen Armenians participated in this demonstration, and they held banners, according to Hayordi Youth Association of Strasbourg.

In addition, those in attendance placed flowers in front of Dink’s picture.

To note, on the nine-year anniversary of Hrant Dink’s assassination, thousands assembled Tuesday outside the former office building of Agos.

Dink was gunned down on  January 19, 2007 in front of Agos’ then-office in Istanbul.

In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.

After long court proceedings and appeals, a new probe was ultimately launched in the Hrant Dink murder case, and regarding 26 former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in the murder.

Photos from the Facebook account of Hayordi Youth Association.