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		</div><p>French president Emmanuel Macron says his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump might have changed the US president&#8217;s mind about climate change. Mr Macron said &#8220;Trump listened to me&#8221; on their main point of contention &#8211; Mr Trump&#8217;s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement &#8211; and &#8220;said he would try to find a solution in the coming months&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Macron defended his reaching out to Mr Trump, telling the Journal Du Dimanche newspaper: &#8220;Our countries are friends, so we should be too.&#8221; After a tense, white-knuckle handshake at their first meeting in May, Mr Macron said they gained &#8220;better, intimate knowledge of each other&#8221; during Trump&#8217;s visit last week.</p>
<p>The French leader acknowledged Mr Trump&#8217;s visit was carefully choreographed to give Americans a &#8220;stronger image of France&#8221; after deadly Islamic extremist attacks damaged tourism. Separately, President Macron denounced his country&#8217;s collaboration in the Holocaust, attacking those who still downplay the French role in sending tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths.</p>
<p>Mr Macron said &#8220;it was indeed France that organised this,&#8221; adding &#8220;not a single German&#8221; was directly involved, but French police collaborating with the Nazis. Mr Macron, commemorating 75 years since a mass round-up of Jews, dismissed arguments by French far-right leaders that the collaborationist Vichy regime did not represent the French state, saying that is &#8220;convenient, but it is false.&#8221;</p>
<p>At a ceremony attended by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Macron also pledged to fight continued anti-Semitism. He called for a thorough investigation into the recent killing of a Parisian woman believed to be linked to anti-Jewish sentiment.</p>
<p>The emotional ceremony at the Vel d&#8217;Hiv stadium outside Paris included speeches by French Jewish leaders.<br />
It was at this site during Nazi Germany&#8217;s occupation of France in the Second World War that French police rounded up some 13,000 people on July 16-17 1942, before they were sent to camps. Fewer than 100 survived.<br />
Pro-Palestinian and other activists protested against Mr Netanyahu&#8217;s appearance, criticising Jewish settlement policy and the blockade of Gaza.</p>
<p>Mr Macron called it a &#8220;natural gesture&#8221; to invite Netanyahu. But the president, who was due to hold separate talks with Mr Netanyahu, told the Journal Du Dimanche newspaper he is &#8220;not trying to confuse the subject of the commemoration and Franco-Israeli relations.&#8221;</p>
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