French Candidates Suspend Campaign as They Mourn School Shooting
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The attack at a Jewish school that killed four people, including three children, derailed France’s presidential campaign and may calm the candidates’ rhetoric five weeks before election day.
President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, along with Prime Minister Francois Fillon, appeared together last night at a service at a Paris synagogue. The two leading candidates canceled campaign appearances yesterday and today to fly to Toulouse and visit the school, Ozar Hatorah, where the attack took place. Sarkozy announced a minute of silence in all French schools today.