A woman wears a French flag on her bonnet as she attends a public tribute to the victims of the November 13 series of deadly attacks in Paris at the Gustaf Adolfs square in central Stockholm, Sweden, on November 21, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
More than 10,000 people marched Saturday in the French city of Toulouse for peace and against "barbarity" a week after the devastating attacks in the capital left 130 people dead.
The march is the second this week in the southwestern city while thousands have taken to the streets in other parts of France to express their solidarity with grieving Paris.
In the capital, where more than 1.5 million marched after the January attacks by gunmen against Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket, public gatherings have been banned.
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Police surrounded the march in Toulouse as residents braved an icy wind to march under a banner reading: "For freedom and peace, against barbarity and conflation."
The march took place largely in silence.
"It is a silence of contemplation, but also determination," said Bernard Dedeban, secretary-general for the FSU union, one of the organisers of the march.
Lisa, 8, held up a banner reading "freedom".
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"At school we held a minute of silence. To be free is to be able to dance, do theatre, go to the movies, without being attacked," she said as she walked alongside her mother.
Others warned against conflating Muslims and extremists.
Toulouse was itself targeted in a 2012 attack by gunman Mohamed Merah, who shot dead three Jewish schoolchildren, a teacher and three soldiers in the city and nearby Montauban.
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