Millions marched against terrorism Sunday, in the largest protests France has ever seen. The interior ministry said nearly 4 million people took to the streets across the country, with the number in Paris alone at 1.6 million. Hundreds of thousands of turned out in other French cities Bordeaux and Lyon and marches were held in Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul and Madrid and in US and Canadian cities as well. At the head of a vast procession, President Francois Hollande linked arms with world leaders, including the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president aside from the British and Italian prime ministers, in an historic display of unity. Security in the capital was tight with so many world leaders present.
The vast crowd chanted “Charlie, Charlie”, in honor of the cartoonists and journalists slaughtered at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The demonstrators also carried banners that said, “I’m French and I’m not scared.” The crowd in Paris was also mourning four Jews killed when a gunman stormed a kosher supermarket.
The offices of a Belgian newspaper that republished cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were evacuated Sunday, after receiving an anonymous bomb threat.
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