But the National Front leader has been under pressure since the start of April as conservative Francois Fillon and far-leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon closed the gap on the favourites.
Belgium's federal prosecutor said Wednesday that there was already an alert out for Baur, who was wanted for questioning in an ongoing Belgian investigation.
Le Pen has said she would extend the law banning "ostensible" religious signs to the streets of France. "It is a choice between a France that is rising again and a France that is sinking".
Le Pen, who has been pressing home her core message on stopping immigration in the past week, dropped by 2.5 percentage points to 22.5 percent of voting intentions compared with early April, and Macron fell 2 percentage points to 23 percent in the first round, Cevipof said.
An Ifop-Fiducial poll has some bad news for Ms. Le Pen noting that 3 of 4 French voters see the National Front as risky for democracy and 4 of 5 find the Front to be "racist".
"Fight for victory, until the very last minute", she said. "If every patriot can this week convince just one abstentionist, just one undecided voter, we are sure to win!"
France's presidential race is being closely watched internationally as a key gauge of populist sentiment, mainly promoted by Le Pen, with her nationalist program presented under the slogan "In the Name of the People".
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Promising to immediately impose a moratorium on immigration, she said: "The French sometimes have fewer rights than foreigners - even illegal ones".
Demonstrators also threw rocks at police forces, who in turn fired tear gas. The protesters then left, followed by a small group of police. Tight security was the order of the day for Le Pen and other top candidates. Reuters could not verify either comment.
A few hours earlier on the other side of Paris, Le Pen's most likely run-off opponent, Macron, addressed a crowd almost four times larger in another concert hall and struck a starkly different, pro-European tone.
But Le Pen's supporters dismissed her opponent and his ideas.
"Macron is a pure marketing product", said 26 year-old Veronique Fornilli, an FN youth activist in the Paris region.
"The measures that I want to put in place would mean that many of these people (Islamist attackers) would not have been on our territory or living freely", she told BFM, repeating a claim from a speech on Sunday night.
"I consider that the European Union has undermined France's sovereignty, infringes our economy and prevent us from protecting ourselves", Le Pen said in the air of the BFMTV broadcaster, adding that she would be able "to do many things" with France's annual contribution of $9.6 billion to the EU budget.
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