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		</div><p>Crowds danced on a Paris plaza as Socialist presidential candidate Benoit Hamon held what was seen as a last-chance rally and concert. Mr Hamon is polling in a distant fifth place ahead of Sunday&#8217;s first-round election and has little chance of reaching the decisive May 7 run-off &#8211; a failure that could crush his party.</p>
<p>French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who has dominated the campaign with her anti-immigration, anti-EU proposals, is appealing to her electoral base in the hopes of maintaining a shot at the run-off.</p>
<p>She assailed recent governments for failing to stop extremist attacks in recent years and warned on BFM television that &#8220;we are all targets. All the French&#8221;. The candidates have increased security in recent days. Authorities announced on Tuesday that they had arrested two Islamic radicals suspected of plotting a possible attack around the vote.</p>
<p>Independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron reached out to the French Muslim community, saying it is fighting on a &#8220;common front&#8221; alongside the state against Islamic extremism. Mr Macron met with the head of leading French Muslim group CFCM, Anouar Kbibech.</p>
<p>In a statement afterwards, Mr Macron insisted on the importance of respecting France&#8217;s secular traditions but said they should not be used to target Muslims.</p>
<p>Some Muslims feel unfairly targeted by French laws banning headscarves in schools and full-face veils in public. The Grand Mosque of Lyon issued an appeal urging Muslims to cast ballots instead of isolating themselves, &#8220;so that all the children of France, regardless of their skin colour, their origins or their religion, are fully involved in the future of their country&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen also defended her decision to force national news network TF1 to take down the European flag during an interview on Tuesday night. She said on Wednesday that &#8220;I am a candidate in the election for the French republic&#8221; and that Europe is acting like France&#8217;s &#8220;enemy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen, who accuses the EU of taking away France&#8217;s sovereignty and hurting its economy, wants to pull France out of the EU and the euro &#8211; which could devastate the bloc and badly disrupt financial markets.</p>
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