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France to send in 5,000 police and troops to guard 700 Jewish schools

France has deployed nearly 5,000 police to protect Jewish schools and mobilised thousands more security forces in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris. Addressing parents of a Jewish school south of the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said soldiers would also be posted as reinforcements at the country’s 717 Jewish schools. France is also mobilising a further 5,000 members of the security forces to protect other sensitive sites, a deployment which will begin on Tuesday.

The threat is still present - France is at war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam.

France Prime Minister Manuel Valls

It comes as the country’s Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said that one of the three gunmen who killed 17 people in the capital “undoubtedly” had an accomplice and vowed to continue the hunt. Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four Jewish shoppers at a kosher supermarket, likely received help from someone else, Mr Valls said, pledging “the hunt will go on”. Investigators have been trying to find his partner, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, but Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said she crossed into Syria from the country on 8 January.