French president Francois Hollande has ordered the deployment of about 15,000 security personnel to schools, train stations and cultural sites across the country after attacks in Paris left 20 dead last week.
The attacks at magazine Charlie Hebdo, on a police officer, and at a kosher supermarket left 17 civilians and three gunmen dead, but police believe the gunman at the supermarket had an accomplice, AFP reports.
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French security services began the search for an accomplice after a video of gunman Amedy Coulibaly was posted two days after his death, declaring his allegiance to the Islamic State. The video had a banner describing the killing of four people at the grocery and the death of Coulibaly, who also shot a police officer a day prior in a Paris suburb, the Irish Times reports.
Also allegedly involved in the attacks were brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and were gunned down by police at around the same time Coulibaly was shot by officers on Jan. 9.
Due to the possibility of a remaining threat, 4,700 police officers have been deployed to 717 Jewish schools and religious sites.
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