Six terror cells STILL on the loose in France: Gun police on the streets to protect Jewish schools 24 hours a day
Up to six Islamic terrorist cells may still be at large and ready to strike in mainland France, police warned last night.
The alert came as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls placed an extra 10,000 troops on the streets of Paris and warned: ‘We are at war.’
He said there were ‘without doubt’ accomplices to last week’s killings in Paris, after security services on both sides of the Channel warned that further attacks are ‘highly likely’.
Police sources put the number of potential cells within France at ‘up to six’.
Officials said one suspect had been seen driving a Mini Cooper car registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed by police on Friday after murdering a woman officer and four Jewish hostages.
Boumeddiene is thought to have helped mastermind the Paris atrocities, which left 17 dead. The warning of more sleeper cells came as Mr Valls deployed thousands of armed police to guard Jewish schools around the clock, in response to Coulibaly’s attack on a kosher deli.
The fanatic said he had deliberately chosen a Jewish shop, claiming his victims were legitimate targets in revenge for the deaths of Muslims in Palestine.
Police later found he had maps showing the locations of Jewish schools in Paris.
Announcing the new security measures yesterday, Mr Valls said: ‘With regard to these barbaric terrorist acts, the work for justice and the investigation continues. We think that there were actually probably other accomplices too – the hunt will go on to find them.
He added: ‘I do not want there to be young people who identify with these barbaric terrorists who murdered journalists, police and French Jews just because they were Jews.’
Mr Valls said surveillance would also be improved and counter- terrorism officers given more resources following criticism of the security services.
Up to six Islamic terrorist cells may still be at large and ready to strike in mainland France, police warned last night.
The alert came as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls placed an extra 10,000 troops on the streets of Paris and warned: ‘We are at war.’
He said there were ‘without doubt’ accomplices to last week’s killings in Paris, after security services on both sides of the Channel warned that further attacks are ‘highly likely’.
Police sources put the number of potential cells within France at ‘up to six’.
Officials said one suspect had been seen driving a Mini Cooper car registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed by police on Friday after murdering a woman officer and four Jewish hostages.
Boumeddiene is thought to have helped mastermind the Paris atrocities, which left 17 dead. The warning of more sleeper cells came as Mr Valls deployed thousands of armed police to guard Jewish schools around the clock, in response to Coulibaly’s attack on a kosher deli.
The fanatic said he had deliberately chosen a Jewish shop, claiming his victims were legitimate targets in revenge for the deaths of Muslims in Palestine.
Police later found he had maps showing the locations of Jewish schools in Paris.
Announcing the new security measures yesterday, Mr Valls said: ‘With regard to these barbaric terrorist acts, the work for justice and the investigation continues. We think that there were actually probably other accomplices too – the hunt will go on to find them.
He added: ‘I do not want there to be young people who identify with these barbaric terrorists who murdered journalists, police and French Jews just because they were Jews.’
Mr Valls said surveillance would also be improved and counter- terrorism officers given more resources following criticism of the security services.
