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France: over 200 thousand. demonstrators against terrorism
In Toulouse in the south of the country in the manifestation was attended by about 80 thousand. people, and Nantes in the west – at least 30 thousand. On the other hand, in Lille in the north and the east of Besancon manifested after 22 thousand. people.
The 80-thousandths town of Pau in the south west of France in the silent march was attended by at least 30 thous. people. In Orleans in the central part of the country participated in the manifestation of more than 22 thousand. humans. In Nice, in the south-east of France at the demonstration came – according to police sources – at least 23 thousand. people.
“We’re Charlie” – is one of the most repeated slogans during these demonstrations. President Francois Hollande on Friday asked all Frenchmen, that took part in demonstrations aimed at the defense of “democracy, freedom and pluralism.”
Marches silence in French cities precede the great manifestation announced on Sunday in Paris under the chairmanship of President Hollande, who invited her numerous foreign leaders. It is to begin at 15.
announced their participation, among others, Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Polish and David Cameron, Matteo Renzi, Mariano Rajoy, Health Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and as well as European Council President Donald Tusk and the heads of the European Commission and the European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker, and Martin Schulz. According to the newspaper “Die Welt” They also will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The French authorities decided to keep the Paris region, the highest level of anti-terrorist alert. Already on Wednesday, after the assassination of the editors of the satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris sent more than 500 policemen, and on Thursday to the region Ile-de-France sent 350 soldiers, including commandos.
Police forces were reinforced on Saturday, and on Sunday in Paris and the Paris region has to watch over the safety of police officers in 1350. At national level, the security guards or the military in 1900 – said the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Colonel Gilles Jaron France.
“We are exposed to the risk. It is therefore important that the anti-terrorist surveillance plan, which has been reinforced in the Ile-de-France (…), remained enhanced over the next weeks,” – said today the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Bernard Cazeneuve, starting from the meeting crisis at the Elysee Palace.
After Wednesday’s attack on the editorial staff of “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, which killed 12 people across the country and outside of France held demonstrations of solidarity, which participants performed under the slogan “I’m Charlie.”
Brothers and Said Kouachi Cherif, the perpetrators of the attack on established weekly, died after two days of raids during the French anti-terrorist assault in Dammartin-en-Goele, approx. 40 km north of Paris. On the same day he was killed by security forces Amedy Coulibaly, who on Thursday on the outskirts of Paris in Montrouge, shot a cop, and on Friday he took several hostages in a Jewish shop in the eastern part of the capital of France. In the wild remains Coulibaly’ego accomplice, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene that the media describe as the most wanted woman in France.
Brothers Kouachi and Coulibaly said on Friday that the work and confirmed membership according to Al-Qaeda in Yemen and the Islamic State.
In the Middle East and some parts of France supporters of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State coup perpetrators praise in the editorial “Charlie Hebdo”, calling them “the lions of the Caliphate”. Weekly, which has long been threatened by ridiculing Islam, plans for next week special edition, prepared in the offices of another newspaper.
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