World leaders are gathering in Paris ahead of a march in the French capital to show unity after three days of terror that left 17 people dead.
Some 40 leaders are to go to the rally, expected to dwarf Saturday's marches that saw 700,000 take to the streets.
During the marches, people held banners that read "I am against racism", "unity", or "I am Charlie" - the latter a reference to the magazine.
Addressing a large gathering outside the kosher supermarket that was targeted, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: "Today, we are all Charlie, we are all police officers, we are all Jews of France."
He said he had "no doubt that millions of citizens will come to express their love of liberty, their love of fraternity" in Paris on Sunday Jan 11,2015
The foreign leaders expected to attend the rally include UK Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The march, which will be led by relatives of the victims of last week's attacks, will leave Place de la Republique at 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT).
More than a million people are expected to take part
About 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers are being deployed across the French capital to protect marchers
Thousands remained in Place de la Nation this evening after some five
hours of marching in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and supermarket
massacres
3.7MILLION people march across France as world leaders are joined in Paris for moving tribute to 17 terror victims Sunday Jan 11,2015
More than
three million people gathered across France today to stage defiant
marches in a moving tribute to the 17 people killed in terror attacks
across the country last week.
With
the majority flocking to the capital where cartoonists and passers-by
were murdered by Islamic fanatics last week, British Prime Minister
David Cameron joined crowds marching in their memory.
Arm
in arm with President Francois Hollande and a host of other world
leaders, he was among an estimated two million people marching through
the city.
Elsewhere,
US Attorney General Eric Holder joined officials, including British Home
Secretary Theresa Mary, at the Interior Ministry where talks were held
about threats posed by Islamist extremism.
Standing
in a front-row of world leaders near Place de la Republique shortly
before 3pm, President Holland told crowds: 'Today, Paris is the capital
of the world.'
Starting at 3pm local time: People begin to gather at Place de la République in Paris before the demonstration
French President Francois Hollande (centre) welcomes the Interior
Ministers Jorge Fernandez Diaz of Spain (second left), Bernard Cazeneuve
of France (third left), US Attorney General Eric Holder (fourth left),
British Home Secretary Teresa May (second right) and European
Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos
(right) at the Elysee Palace before they participate in the march
As night fell in Paris, tens of thousands of people
continued marching in 'unprecedented' numbers. Today saw more people
flock to the city's streets than ever before in its history
French President Francois Hollande is surrounded by leaders including
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (left), Israel's Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu (fourth right), Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar
Keita (third right) and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel (right)
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