Dozens of world leaders converged on Paris to honor those killed in last weeks terror attacks and show solidarity with the French people. A rally of defiance and sorrow, protected by an unparalleled level of security, will honor the victims of three days of bloodshed in Paris that left France on alert for more violence.
French President Francois Hollande (3rd L) is surrounded by head of states (From L to R : Benyamin Netanyahu of Israel, Ibrahim Boubakar Keita of Mali, Angela Merkel of Germany, EU Coucil President Donald Tusk and Palestinian Mahmud Abbas) as they attend the solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris Jan. 11. French citizens will be joined by dozens of foreign leaders, among them Arab and Muslim representatives, in a march on Sunday in an unprecedented tribute to this week’s victims following the shootings by gunmen at the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the killing of a police woman in Montrouge, and the hostage taking at a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes.