Thousands pay last respects to Václav Havel

Crowds of people gathered around the Prague Castle complex on Friday morning to watch the live television broadcast from St. Vitus Cathedral on large screens. An estimated 35,000 people queued for hours during the past couple of days to pay their last respects to the late statesman whose coffin lay in state in Prague Castle’s Vladislav Hall. Some ten thousand also joined the funeral procession through Prague on Wednesday morning.