Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, said 5,000 police would be on duty in Paris and its surrounding areas to "ensure that the radical right and radical left do not take advantage of the situation to cause mayhem".
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"Let's reject the climate of violence and hatred that is taking hold," prime minister Gabriel Attal wrote on Thursday on X, adding that violence and intimidation had "no place in our democracy."

Sunday's decisive second round is expected to result in the far-right, anti-immigration RN becoming the biggest party in parliament, whether or not it reaches the 289 seats needed for an absolute majority to form the next government.

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"This campaign is short and yet we already have 51 candidates, substitutes and activists who have been physically assaulted," Darmanin told BFMTV on Friday. More than 30 people have been arrested, he said, including militants from far-right and far-left groups.

Four people, including three minors, were detained over attacking government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot and her team on Wednesday while they were putting up campaign posters in Meudon outside Paris, prosecutors said. The motive for the attack is not clear....