'Millions' Expected To Defy Terrorists In Paris

By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Paris

Paris is on high alert as world leaders converge on the city for a march expected to draw millions of people in a demonstration of national unity.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls predicted the huge turnout to honour the 17 people killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher supermarket and the police.

He told thousands gathered near the scene of the deadly supermarket siege on Saturday: "I have no doubt that millions of citizens will come to express their love of liberty, their love of fraternity." 

With the country's national security threat system still at the highest level and a suspected member of the terror cell behind the attacks on the run, France has deployed thousands of police and troops to protect the capital.

More than 5,500 police and military personnel will be deployed for the security operation, including 2,200 to guard the route of the march, which will run for 1.9miles (3km) from the historic Place de la Republique to Place de la Nation.

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Police marksmen will be stationed on roofs in the area ahead of the start of the march at 3pm UK time.

Some 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers will be stationed at other locations around the city, including at places of worship, media outlets and public buildings.

As the crowd marches, 150 plain clothes detectives will mingle among them and a security perimeter will be enforced, with roads and some central metro stations closed.

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