- Title: France's Fillon visits site of Berlin Christmas market attack
- Date: 23rd January 2017
- Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (JANUARY 23, 2017) (REUTERS) CANDLES KAISER WILHELM MEMORIAL CHURCH / MEMORIAL SITE MEMORIAL FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANCOIS FILLON LAYING WHITE ROSE VARIOUS OF FILLON STANDING IN MOMENT OF SILENCE HEART ON MEMORIAL READING (English): "LOVE WILL WIN" VARIOUS OF FILLON LEAVING
- Embargoed: 6th February 2017 18:54
- Keywords: Fillon France presidential candidate Berlin attack
- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- City: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
- Reuters ID: LVA00160AVXAF
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- Story Text: French presidential candidate Francois Fillon visited the memorial site of a recent Christmas market attack while in Berlin on Monday (January 23).
Fillon laid a white rose and took a moment of silence at the place where twelve people died after a truck ploughed into the market. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
The conservative front-runner in France's presidential elections was in the German capital to attend a closed-door meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The former prime minister under ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is the only candidate to be received by chancellor so far, in a sign of support from Merkel.
Polls put Fillon in the lead to win a run-off vote in in the April-May election, though his lead over far right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron has been narrowing. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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