The centrist who has been a front-runner in polls with Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front said he has canceled two planned campaign stops on Friday out of a sense to "decency" and to allow police to concentrate resources on the attack investigation.
Anyone who said otherwise was irresponsible, said Macron, a former economy minister in the government that Le Pen has repeatedly criticised for its security record.
None of the four main French candidates can afford to be neutral on the European Union, whether they portray it as the source of all woes or a guarantee of peace and stability. Eleven candidates are running, with four seen as have the best chances for making a run-off of two, which would be held May 7.
Three surveys showed Macron having a slight edge over Le Pen with 23-25 percent against 22-23 percent.
The nation prepares to vote in the shadow of a terror attack that took place on the capital's famous Champs Elysees Avenue on Thursday night.
A presidential election in France is not usually the sort of thing that I would tell you to pay attention to.
Trump told the AP in an interview he was not explicitly endorsing Le Pen but that he believes the attack will affect how French people vote on Sunday. Le Pen, says one diplomatic source, has the capacity to project herself as a "Joan of Arc figure" who alone can save the country.
Fillon said that if elected, his foreign policy priority would be the destruction of ISIS.
In the bond market, a measure on expected US yield swings in the next 30 days has risen since the end of March, reaching a two-month peak last week, according to an index compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is appealing to French voters to keep a cool head in the wake of the gun attack of the Champs-Elysees that killed a police officer.
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And following the match manager Jose Mourinho said the outlook was "fairly negative" for both players. So instead of mid-May, it could be the beginning of May, this kind of acceleration of the process".
This morning Mr Trump tweeted: "Another terrorist attack in Paris".
There have also been attacks on a satirical weekly and a kosher store. Parliament voted in December to extend the extraordinary provisions to ensure the protection of upcoming presidential and general elections.
Opinion polls indicate that the race has tightened while around 30% of voters have still to decide. "A vigorous offensive will be taken to fight Islamic radicalisation, especially on the internet", he said. "It just never ends", Trump said, standing alongside Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.
"The government is fully mobilised".
"It is up to us not to give in to fear, intimidation, manipulation, and division".
Macron was quick to respond.
The "totalitarian" European Union has also always been one of Le Pen's pet hates and a constant target for her virulent nationalist discourse.
The nightmare scenario for global financial markets: A second-round duel between the equally sharp-tongued Le Pen and Melenchon.
Fillon, who has slowly clawed back some ground lost after being hit by a fake jobs scandal, saw his score in the first round rise half a percentage point to 20 percent. If the Macron bubble pops, the victor could be either the conservative Catholic free-marketeer Francois Fillon or the hard leftist Melenchon - and an unpredictable runoff against Le Pen.
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