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Anti-Terror March di Paris
Hundreds of thousands of people have filled the streets of Paris to march in memory of those killed in last week’s terrorist attacks.
Dozens of world leaders are also in the French capital to show solidarity.
Seventeen people were killed in three days of terror in Paris, including attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices, a kosher supermarket, and a lone policewoman.
Hundreds of thousands of people gather on the Place de la Republique to attend the solidarity march (Rassemblement Republicain) in the streets of Paris January 11, 2015.
More than one million people were expected to turn out for Sunday’s demonstration to remember those killed in the attacks. Here, a massive crowd can be seen gathering in the Republique square before the scheduled march.
President Hollande marched arm-in-arm with other world leaders, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, and the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.
Surviving journalists from Charlie Hebdo led the march.
Here is an aerial shot of the Place de la République.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was also marching, as was Italian President Matteo Renzi, pictured right.
President Hollande marched next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the King and Queen of Jordan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pictured waving, alongside Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
These official information signs from Paris City Hall were broadcasting patriotic messages across the city.
It reads: “I am a police officer. I am Jewish. I am Muslim. I am Christian. I am an atheist. I am French. I am a citizen of the world. I am Charlie.”
Demonstrators held up signs depicting the eyes of slainCharlie Hebdo editor Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier.
(CNN)Dignitaries and world leaders joined hundreds of thousands of people in Paris on Sunday in what government officials called a "unity rally" in defiance of a terrorism rampage that claimed 17 lives.
French President Francois Hollande was joined by other heads of state and dignitaries -- several who linked arms.
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.
French officials announced "exceptional measures" to protect not only the throngs gathered near the Place de la Republique in central Paris, but also a veritable who's who of foreign leaders -- a test of the security forces of a nation rocked by days of terrorist violence.
The massive rally comes as French law enforcement officers are being told to remove their social media presence and to carry their weapons at all times because terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours in the country, a French police source who attended a briefing Saturday told CNN terror analyst Samuel Laurent.
Amedy Coulibaly, a suspect killed Friday during a deadly hostage siege at a kosher market, had made several phone calls about targeting police officers in France, according to the source.
While law enforcement worked to track down anyone who wants to harm the people of France, a sea of demonstrators broke into song, held hands, cheered and passionately denounced violence.
"This is about unity!" a man in the massive crowd told CNN's Hala Gorani.
An imam and several Muslims were in the crowd. A young Muslim French woman held a sign that said, "I am a Jew." She told CNN's Frederik Pleitgen that she was horrified to hear of the killings, and the killers do not live according to the Islamic principles she's been taught.
"Our religion is the religion of love. ... Our religion loves Jews ... loves Christians. We are not terrorists," one Muslim man said, his voice rising.
He lifted his arm and gestured to many people around him who came to denounce violence: "We are all Muslim!"
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has outlined extraordinary security measures to protect VIPs such as British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
At many moments, the gathering looked like a funeral. Merkel was photographed lying her head gently on Hollande's shoulder.
Other leaders included 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.
Several people in the crowd and on social media wondered why U.S. President Barack Obama was apparently not at the rally. Secretary of State John Kerry was not there either.
A senior State Department official told CNN that Kerry had committed a long time ago to be the lead speaker at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's entrepreneurship and innovation summit in India. The official said that Kerry did not want to cancel that as he continues to wok on the United States' relationship with the nation. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley represented the United States at the rally.
Cazeneuve and other officials said 2,300 police officers, as well as paramilitary forces, would be deployed 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.
French investigators are still trying to piece together the web of connections between three terror suspects killed Friday and their suspected links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and other terrorist groups. They will remain at a heightened security level as the investigations continue, officials have said.
The country continues to cope with three days of terror that left 17 people dead; thousands gathered on the streets for vigils Saturday.
The precautions may help to ease the nerves of a country left on edge by the wave of violence.
The targeting of a kosher grocery store has shaken Jewish communities in particular. Amid the heightened security concerns, the Grande Synagogue of Paris was closed Saturday for the first time since World War II.
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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