{"id":21311,"date":"2015-01-11T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2015-01-11T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:55:04","slug":"world-leaders-hundreds-of-thousands-march-for-unity-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/world-leaders-hundreds-of-thousands-march-for-unity-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"World leaders, hundreds of thousands march for \u2018unity\u2019 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) -Hundreds of thousands of people marched in a unity rally in Paris to denounce terrorism and honor the victims of three attacks in Paris over three days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21312\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"World leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21312\" class=\"wp-image-21312 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"World_leaders\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/195;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21312\" class=\"wp-image-21312 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"World_leaders\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/World_leaders.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-21312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far left, was among the dozens of world leaders who gathered for a unity march in Paris, Jan. 11, 2015. (Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>No official police estimates have been released on the number of marchers at the rally Sunday, but media outlets put the crowd at more than 1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of world leaders attended, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who marched in the front row with French President Francois Hollande. The two were several marchers apart, with Hollande in the middle. It is the closest the leaders have been seen together in years, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>There were no speeches at the rally. Marchers carried signs in French reading \u201cI am Charlie,\u201d referring to the satirical magazine where 12 staff members and security forces were killed on Jan. 7. Other signs read in French \u201cI am a Jew,\u201d representing the four men killed during an attack Friday on a kosher supermarket in a Paris suburb. A police officer was also killed Thursday by one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Family members of the 17 victims of the three attacks led one section of the march. Christian, Jewish and Muslim community leaders also participated.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish marchers in kippahs and black hats and Muslims in head coverings were noticeable at the march.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of French soldiers and police secured the march, including snipers on roofs along the march\u2019s route.<\/p>\n<p>In Jerusalem, a solidarity march at City Hall timed to coincide with the Paris march drew about 1,000 marchers.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, video surfaced showing kosher supermarket shooter Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and saying that he coordinated the attack with Cherif and Said Kouachi, the Charlie Hebdo shooters who were killed Friday by police. The Kouachi brothers had said they were financed by Al Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>The video was prepared by Coulibaly to be released after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Coulibaly is now also being connected to the shooting of a jogger on the same day as the attack on the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/01\/11\/news-opinion\/world\/hundreds-of-thousands-march-in-paris-against-terrorism#ixzz3OYX2x7JG<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"World%20leaders%2C%20hundreds%20of%20thousands%20march%20for%20%E2%80%98unity%E2%80%99%20in%20Paris\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[208,689,4401,8790,8795,8788,688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21313,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions\/21313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}