Ilan Halimi update

Ha'aretz has updated its report on the anti-racist demo that followed the murder of Ilan Halimi. It now transpires that the French National Front and the Movement for France did not attend though some organisers wanted them to.

The organizers had decided against inviting Jean-Marie Le Pen, the head of the far-right National Front party, to participate in the demonstration, due to sharp opposition from leftist organizations and human rights groups. Philippe de Villiers, the head of another far-right party, the Movement for France (known by its French initials MPF), did try to attend, but he was greeted with cries of "racist" and removed by the guards.