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French MPs sing La Marseillaise in response to Paris attack

Video. French MPs sing La Marseillaise in response to Paris attack

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President Francois Hollande said that France’s constitution needed to be amended to better deal with crisis situations as he addressed both houses of

President Francois Hollande said that France’s constitution needed to be amended to better deal with crisis situations as he addressed both houses of parliament convened at Versailles.

Parliamentarians gave Hollande a standing ovation before singing the national anthem in a signal of political unity following the worst atrocity in France since the Algerian crisis and the massacre by police of peaceful Algerian protesters in Paris in October 1961.

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