PARIS: World leaders and Dignitaries participated in a unity rally in Paris on Sunday in defiance of a terrorism spree that claimed 17 lives.
The rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people.
French President Francois Hollande was joined by other heads of state and dignitaries.
The leaders included British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At the very front of the march was Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has outlined extraordinary security measures to protect VIPs.
Cazeneuve and other officials said 2,300 police officers, as well as paramilitary forces, have been deployed on Sunday. The dignitaries and leaders will be protected by special units.
In addition, police snipers, plainclothes and anti-terror officers will be deployed and parking and transit restrictions will be put in place. The government will close large sections of the city to traffic, Cazeneuve said.
The precautions may help to ease the nerves of a country left on edge by the wave of violence.
Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi authors of Wednesday’s deadly attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed Friday after the two violent standoffs . The brothers are suspected of killing 12 people in a massacre at the magazine offices.
Coulibaly, suspected in the slaying of a police officer, was killed by security forces Friday after he shot and killed four hostages during the siege at the kosher market.
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