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Ariana Grande world tour resumes in Paris in shadow of Manchester attack

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US musician Ariana Grande performs at the One Love Manchester benefit concert for the families of the victims of the May 22, Manchester terror attack. Her World Tour resumed in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Fans turned out Wednesday evening for the resumption of US singer Ariana Grande world tour in Paris, more than two weeks after it was interrupted by the Manchester suicide bomb attack.

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Security was extra tight in the French capital, a day after police shot and injured a man who attacked an officer outside the world-famous Notre Dame cathedral.

Even before Tuesday’s Notre Dame attack, police had announced a significant deployment planned for the US singer’s concert, noting its “powerful symbolic context”.

Roads were blocked off around the Bercy concert venue in the east of Paris while police helped security guards to check fans as they arrived for the show.

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By late on Wednesday, a long queue stretched outside the venue with fans patiently waiting for an hour to get inside, where backpacks were banned.

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