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France to Deploy Thousands of Forces to Protect Jewish Schools - New York Times





PARIS — France will deploy thousands of police officers and soldiers to guard the more than 700 Jewish schools across the country as a precaution against further terrorist attacks, the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said on Monday.


Mr. Cazeneuve announced the new protections in an address to parents at a Jewish school south of Paris, according to French radio and news agencies.


Four Jewish shoppers were killed in a kosher supermarket on Friday during a hostage-taking by a gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who claimed he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State militant group.


The increased security at Jewish schools and houses of worship came as France’s prime minister, Manuel Valls, speaking to BFM television, said that Mr. Coulibaly “undoubtedly” had one or more accomplices still at large who posed a continuing threat.



Turkey’s state news agency on Monday quoted the country’s foreign minister saying that Hayat Boumeddiene, thought to be Mr. Coulibaly’s companion, had entered Syria from Turkey on Thursday, the day before the kosher supermarket attack.


That morning, Mr. Coulibaly is believed to have shot and killed a female police officer and wounded a street sweeper in Montrouge, a suburb just south of Paris.


Mevlut Cavusoglu, the foreign minister, told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday that Ms. Boumeddiene had arrived in Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2, and had stayed at a hotel in Istanbul.


Also on Monday, President François Hollande convened a meeting of cabinet ministers and top security advisers to discuss possible new suveillance and security measures after last week’s attacks. The government has come under heavy criticism for failing to more closely monitor the suspects, all of whom were known to officials for ties to Islamic militants.









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