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Arrests at banned pro-Palestinian rally in Paris as Macron calls for calm

Protestors at Place de la Republique in Paris, where riot police used tear gas to disperse a rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, on Thursday, 12 October 2023. AP - Thibault Camus

French police used teargas and water cannon to break up a banned pro-Palestinian protest in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home.

Some 3,000 demonstrators gathered at Place de la République in central Paris in support of Palestinians and against the Israeli government.

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