People have filled a square in the French city of Strasbourg to show respect and sympathy for the victims of last week's shooting attack near a famous Christmas market as the death toll rose to five.
French authorities said a Polish man died in a Strasbourg hospital on Sunday, one of a dozen people wounded in last Tuesday's attack.
According to the newspaper DNA, more than 1000 people attended the memorial, which ended with a minute of applause and a rendition of France's national anthem, La Marseillaise.
The hour-long ceremony took place in Kleber Square, not far from where a gunman opened fire on Tuesday evening.
An extensive manhunt for the gunman ended Thursday night when the main suspect, Strasbourg-born Cherif Chekatt, 29, was killed in a shootout with police in the city neighbourhood where he grew up.
The attack remains under investigation.
The attack victims came from multiple countries: One of the dead was a tourist from Thailand. Another was an Italian journalist covering the European Parliament based in Strasbourg. The latest to die from his injuries was a Pole named Barto Orent-Niedzielski, according to the Strasbourg regional administration, or prefecture.
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