{"id":81488,"date":"2015-01-12T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81488"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:47:43","slug":"france-deploy-10000-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/france-deploy-10000-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"France to deploy 10,000 troops"},"content":{"rendered":"
France is mobilizing 10,000 troops to boost security after last week’s deadly attacks, and will send thousands of police to protect Jewish schools.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said troops would be in place from Tuesday in the most sensitive areas.<\/p>\n
The comments came as the French cabinet held a crisis meeting on security.<\/p>\n
Seventeen people were killed in Paris last week in attacks at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, on a police officer, and at a kosher supermarket.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, an estimated 3.7 million people turned out to show solidarity with the victims, including 1.5 million people in Paris.<\/p>\n
About 40 world leaders joined the start of the Paris march, linking arms in an act of solidarity.<\/p>\n
In Paris on Monday, President Francois Hollande held a crisis meeting with top officials.<\/p>\n
Mr Le Drian said the deployment of troops represented the largest ever mobilisation of troops within France, and was needed because “threats remain present”.<\/p>\n
Interior Minister Bernard Cazaneuve announced that nearly 5,000 members of the security forces would be sent to protect France’s 717 Jewish schools, and that troops would be sent as reinforcements over the next two days.<\/p>\n
Last week, Mr Valls admitted there had been “clear failings” after it emerged that the three gunman involved in the attacks – Said and Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly – had a history of extremism.<\/p>\n
The Kouachi brothers were on UK and US terror watch lists and Coulibaly had previously been convicted for plotting to free a known militant from prison. Coulibaly met Cherif Kouachi while in jail.<\/p>\n
Coulibaly and the two brothers were shot dead on Friday after police ended two separate sieges.<\/p>\n