Crif had called “all friends of Israel” to a march organized on Monday from Place Victor-Hugo towards the Trocadéro.
“Release the hostages!” or “Israel will live, Israel will overcome!” According to the Paris police headquarters, 16,000 people responded to the call from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), Monday October 9 at the end of the day, to express their solidarity with Israel, three days after the Hamas attack. The procession marched from Place Victor-Hugo towards Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of the capital.
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Many personalities paraded through the streets of the capital: the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, the Minister of the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini, the presidents of the Ile regions -de-France Valérie Pécresse, Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand, and Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne Laurent Wauquiez. Also present, the president of the LR party Eric Ciotti, the PS deputy Boris Vallaud, the environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot, the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, and the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy. “It’s a huge lesson in unity”rejoiced to franceinfo Haïm Korsia, chief rabbi of France, present in the Parisian procession.
Gatherings also took place in other French cities. In Nice, several hundred people gathered early in the afternoon in front of the town hall decorated with a large Israeli flag. Gathering also on the square in front of the great synagogue in Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nancy, Tours, Lille, Montpellier, and even Marseille.