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National Front not invited to planned 'Republican Rally'
8 January 2015 16:10 GMT
French far-right party National Front has not been asked to take part in the “Republican Rally” planned for Sunday.
The march will commemorate the 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the RTL radio station that the “anti-Europe and anti-immigration” National Front did not share “the republican values of the ruling socialists and conservative opposition.”
“National unity is built around profoundly republican values, namely a refusal to make associations between Islam and extremism,” he said.
Tens of thousands of people turned out in France on Wednesday evening to commemorate the killings and large numbers are also expected to attend the rally on Sunday.