The Latest: Macron honors man killed by French far-right

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, 2nd left, stands next to Said Bouarram, left, son of Brahim Bouarram, as he pays hommage to Brahim Bouarram, a Moroccan who drowned in 1995 when right-wing extremists threw him from a bridge after a National Front rally, during a ceremony on the banks of the Seine River in Paris, France, Monday, May 1, 2017. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP) (The Associated Press)

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Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. Jean-Marie Le Pen is holding the Joan of Arc event again Monday, a march his daughter, French presidential candidate Marine le Pen, wants nothing to do with. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu) (The Associated Press)

Members of the global citizen movement AVAAZ wear masks depicting the face of former National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen with the hair of his daughter and French far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, as they stage a protest as part of a May Day rally in Paris, France, Monday, May 1st, 2017. With just six days until a French presidential vote that could define Europe's future, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron are holding high-stakes rallies Monday. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) (The Associated Press)

PARIS – The Latest on France's presidential campaign (all times local):

10:25 a.m.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is paying homage to a Moroccan man killed on the sidelines of a far-right march in 1995.

Macron is seeking to remind voters of the dark past of rival Marine Le Pen's National Front party, which she has tried to detoxify. Both face off in Sunday's runoff.

The National Front traditionally holds a march in central Paris on May 1 to honor Joan of Arc, and at the 1995 event, a group of skinheads broke away and pushed 29-year-old Brahim Bourram off a bridge into the Seine River, where he drowned. Then-party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen sought to distance himself from the attackers, but the death drew national outrage.

Macron on Monday is joining Bourram's father and anti-National Front protesters to honor Bourram's memory.

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10 a.m.

France's tense presidential race is colliding with May Day labor marches in a campaign dominated by worries over jobs and seen as a test of populism's global appeal.

Less than a week before Sunday's runoff, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron are holding separate rallies Monday.

But Le Pen's efforts to clean up her National Front party's anti-Semitic image could be undermined by a parallel Paris event by her father, Jean-Marie, expelled from the party over his extreme views.

Meanwhile, the traditional May 1 union marches across France celebrating workers' rights will be politically charged this year. Some groups want a united front to keep Le Pen from the presidency, but unions fear Macron will dismantle worker protections.