Protests in Lebanon, protesters sing "Baby Shark" to the child in the car

Dad explains that the child is scared and then everyone in the choir starts singing to calm him down – by Davide Frattini, correspondent from Jerusalem /TV Courier
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Protests in Lebanon have now been going on for a week and for now they remain a great popular festival. The dances in the streets, the improvised deejay sets, the embrace between a demonstrating father and the military son on the other side of the barricade. There have been so many moments – and almost all taken by mobile phones – of euphoria, emotion, reconciliation (in a country where people still perceive themselves based on ethnic or religious affiliations, the same divisions that have fueled 15 years of civil war). Of these episodes, above all I was amused and moved: a mother tries to drive a road in Beirut blocked by a procession, explains that she wants to get to the cash quickly because the child sitting in front is frightened by the noise: at that point the protesters try to reassure him and all together start singing him