FRANCE-SHOOTING/HOLLANDE French Muslims have the same rights and duties as all citizens, France's Hollande says
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324626
FRANCE-SHOOTING/HOLLANDE French Muslims have the same rights and duties as all citizens, France's Hollande says
- Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/HOLLANDE French Muslims have the same rights and duties as all citizens, France's Hollande says
- Date: 15th January 2015
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JANUARY 15, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE WITH WORDS ON BUILDING READING (French): 'WE ARE ALL CHARLIE' SIGN FOR THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE 'WE ARE ALL CHARLIE' WRITTEN ON FACADE OF THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE EXTERIOR OF ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE VARIOUS OF POLICE DIRECTING TRAFFIC OUTSIDE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE VARIOUS OF FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, PRESIDENT OF THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE JACK LANG AND CULTURE MINISTER FLEUR PELLERIN OUTSIDE THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE POLICE OFFICIALS OUTSIDE THE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE HOLLANDE, LANG AND PELLERIN ENTERING BUILDING VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE
- Embargoed: 30th January 2015 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: France
- Country: France
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA4XF7P05FYJ3PSIQEM210Q5JAV
- Story Text: French President Francois Hollande visited the Arab World Institute in Paris on Thursday (January 15), one week after an attack by Islamist gunmen on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket.
Seventeen people died in Paris in three days of violence and at least 3.7 million people marched through Paris and French cities on Sunday (January 11) to honour the memory of the journalists, police officers and supermarket customers who were killed in the attacks.
Across the Middle East, Muslim leaders who have denounced the attack on Charlie Hebdo called for calm.
Thanking Arabs for their solidarity in the wake of the recent violence, Hollande said Islam was compatible with democracy and that Muslims in France had the same rights and duties as all French citizens.
"We should also remember, and I did it each time I made a trip to the Arab world, that Islam is compatible with democracy, that we should reject all prejudices and confusions and that first of all in France. French people of Muslim faith have the same rights and have the same duties as all citizens," he said.
France will announce next week a set of anti-terrorism measures, officials said. New resources will be released for surveillance and France could look at widening the policy of isolating radical prisoners.
Hollande, the most unpopular French president in survey history over his failure to kick-start the economy, has come out of the crisis well, with 85 per cent of French approving of his handling of it, a poll showed on Wednesday (January 14). - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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