Tribute to the French victims of Hamas: Macron denounces the “largest anti-Semitic massacre of our century”. Three chairs had been left empty in the family gallery, for the three French people still presumed hostages of the Palestinian Islamist movement.

“We are 68 million French people bereaved by the terrorist attacks of October 7. 68 million minus 42 lives taken, 68 million including six lives injured, 68m including four lives forever damaged by their captivity,” he chanted.