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Nine days after a knife attack perpetrated in the basilica of Nice, French Prime Minister Jean Castex presides over a national tribute in presence of the relatives of the three people killed on 29 October. IMAGES
President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Interior Ministry to take part in a crisis meeting following a knife attack that left three people dead near a church in Nice. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo arrive at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris to pay tribute to the victims of the 13 November 2015 attacks. IMAGES
Gabriel Attal, Minister for Education, alongside Xavier Bertrand, President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, leaves the Gambetta secondary school in Arras, the day after the knife attack that left one teacher dead and three people injured. IMAGES
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