Police said 105,000 people had joined the Paris march, while interior ministry figures put the nationwide figure at 182,000. Thousands of people gathered at more than 70 events across the country, including in major cities Lyon, Nice and Strasbourg.
The same slogan was adopted nationally: “For the Republic, against antisemitism.”
“Our order of the day today is… the total fight against antisemitism which is the opposite of the values of the republic,” Senate speaker Gerard Larcher, who organized the Paris demonstration with lower house speaker Yael Braun-Pivet, told broadcaster LCP before the marchers set off.
Tensions have been rising in the French capital — home to large Jewish and Muslim communities — in the wake of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel, followed by a month of an Israeli ground operation aimed at destroying the terror group. READ MORE