(8 Jun 2013) SHOTLIST :
1. Wide of anti-fascist protest march
2. Mid of protesters with large banner reading holding banner reading (French): "Clement, for ever in our memories, for ever in our hearts"
3. Close of lit flares
4. Close of chanting protesters
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Olivier, Protester with the anti-fascist Action Movement:
"The violence of the far right is also caused by the (political) atmosphere, by speaking with ease (of the far right), by the changed political spectrum, and we are accusing that rightist politics and not only the far right, because their speech and fascist ideas are going beyond their borders, beyond the borders of the National Front of nationalist groups, and Clement (Meric) was fighting against them."
6. Wide of protesters with banner, chanting
7. Close of lit flares
8. Mid of crowd and red smoking flares
9. Mid of protesters in conversation
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohammed (second name not given), Anti-fascist protester:
"You just need to look beyond the French border and go to Greece or Hungary, (and) see the attacks of English Defence (League) in England against Muslims and see that that is the general atmosphere arising in Europe. It is growing with the economic crisis and the chosen targets are immigrants, non-parliamentary leftist groups and anti-fascist militants."
11. Various of protesters chanting as they march
12. Protesters putting up flyers reading (French): "Neither forgotten, neither forgiven"
13. Mid of protesters
14. Mid of banner reading (French): "Clement: For ever in our memories, for ever in our hearts"
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people marched in central Paris on Saturday in tribute to a left-wing activist who beaten to death by far-right militants earlier this week.
The march came as the Paris prosecutor said he is seeking an investigation for murder against a 20-year-old suspected of being involved in the killing of 18-year-old university student Clement Meric in the French capital this week.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said authorities were also seeking charges against the suspect, identified only as "Esteban", and three other alleged accomplices among a group of skinheads for group violence in the brawl between far-right and anti-fascist activists.
The four suspects were being held, and a fifth suspect, a 32-year-old woman named Katya who was said to be Esteban's girlfriend, was facing the prospect of preliminary charges for complicity in group violence, Molins said.
He said the suspects were linked to a far-right group known as "Troisieme Voie", or Third Way.
Protesters marching on Saturday lit red flares, chanted anti-fascist slogans, and carried banners reading: "Clement: For ever in our memories, for ever in our hearts".
Militant extreme-right groups have become increasingly visible in France, and France's Socialist-led government said after Meric's death that it wants to ban fascist and neo-Nazi groups.
But, argued one protester named Mohammed, "you just need to look beyond the French border and go to Greece or Hungary, (and) see the attacks of English Defence (League) in England against Muslims and see that that is the general atmosphere arising in Europe."
The fight erupted outside a clothing store where members of the two groups had run into each other by chance on Wednesday, Molins said, citing witness accounts and testimony by the suspects during police questioning.
The suspects claimed to have responded to alleged provocation by the group that included Meric, a student at the prestigious Paris political science university known as Sciences-Po, he said.
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