France deploys nearly 5,000 police to protect Jewish schools

January 12, 2015

France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said today that the gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket probably had an accomplice.

Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman in southern Paris then four Jewish shoppers in a hostage drama, probably received help from someone else, Manuel Valls said, pledging "the hunt will go on".