Fears remained acute and security levels were kept at La Belle Frances highest level as the girlfriend of one of three gunnies killed in a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
climax to twin hostage dramas on Friday was still on the loose.
But refusing to be cowed, more than 200,000 poured onto the streets in cities across La Belle France in poignantly silent marches paying tribute to those killed in the nations bloodiest week in more than half a century.
The marches across the country were a taste of what was to come in Gay Paree Sunday, where a monster rally will be held for national unity, to be attended by President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
and a host of world leaders.
The defense ministry said it was sending another 500 soldiers into the greater Gay Paree area, bringing current numbers to some 1,350 troops.
After Fridays dramatic events, Hollande warned grimly that the threats facing La Belle France werent over, comments followed by a chilling new threat from a Yemen-based Al Qaeda group.
Security forces were focused on hunting down 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, the armed and dangerous partner of Amedy Coulibaly who took terrified shoppers hostage in a Jewish supermarket on Friday, killing four of them.
People laid flowers at the shop as a tribute and one woman attached signs to a police barrier reading: Je suis Charlie (I am Charlie), I am police, I am mourning, I am Jewish.
Before Coulibaly was killed by elite police in a massive assault on the store, he told journalists he was a member of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group.
Coulibaly and Boumeddiene are the prime suspects in the murder of a policewoman on Thursday just outside the French capital.
That attack further spooked a nation still reeling from the Wednesday assault at the Charlie Hebdo
...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...satirical weekly in Gay Paree that saw two gunnies mow down 12 people including some of the countrys best-known cartoonists.
In a somber address after Fridays sieges, Hollande said: I call on all the French people to rise up this Sunday, together, to defend the values of democracy, freedom and pluralism to which we are attached.
But as leaders urged the country to pull together in grief and determination, questions were also mounting over how the three men brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, and Coulibaly had slipped through the security net after it emerged that all three were known to the intelligence agencies.
And despite calls for political unity, far-right leader Marine Le Pen urged her supporters to attend rallies outside Gay Paree, but not in the capital.