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Police use teargas on banned pro-Palestinian rally in Paris as Macron calls for unity

Protestors leave Place de la République in Paris as riot police use tear gas during a banned pro-Palestinian demonstration on October 12, 2023. © Thibault Camus, AP

French police used teargas and water cannon to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday night, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united amid fears a spillover of the Israel-Hamas conflict in France, home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities.

In a primetime TV address on Thursday, Macron called on the French people to remain united after Saturday's Hamas attack on Israel, which killed 13 French nationals. 

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