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Elected representatives from France's Les Républicains party and the general public gather around the mayor of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, a day after his home and family were targeted in a violent attack, with a car used as a battering ram, in riots following the death of a young man during a police check. IMAGES
Goussainville (France), Aug 27 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mario García Sánchez / Christophe Petit-Tesson) Just 15 kilometers from Paris, a small town refuses to fall into oblivion half a century after the construction of Charles Airport de Gaulle, a project that led 1,000 residents to abandon their homes under pressure from the French administration to demolish them. FOOTAGE FROM GOUSSAINVILLE'S "OLD COUNTRY" RESOURCE (VIEUX-PAYS)SOUNDBITES OF PHILIPPE VIEILLIARD, HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION IN DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE AND SACRISTAN OF THE CHURCH OF SAINT-PAIERRE; AND OF PIERRE MURILLO, AN OLD NEIGHBOR, SON OF SPANISH REPUBLICAN PARENTS EXILE IN FRANCE.TRANSLATION:Vieilliard:1. "We'll see what he does. I don't know if we can be hopeful, but we're going to ask him to do something. So far he's been cleaning the streets a little better and even installed a second bell in the church. So that's a little sign, but it has to start out stronger than that. "2. Murillo: a lot of people believed what they were told, they were going to destroy the whole town, it was always small but very nice and fun, everyone knew each other around here
Hundreds gather in the French town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, a history teacher who was beheaded over showing his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. IMAGES
Police block streets in the centre of Romans-sur-Isère, after a man killed two people and wounded seven others in a knife attack, in the midst of confinement linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo meet with firefighters outside an apartment block in the capital's western 16th arrondissement, where a deadly fire erupted, killing eight people and wounding one more, a fire believed to have been caused by an arsonist. IMAGES
So far at least 149 people have been killed in shootings and bombings at a number of locations in Paris on Friday night. One explosion was near a sports stadium where Germany and France were playing a soccer match that French president François Hollande was watching.