France steps up accomplices hunt in Paris attacks probe

France has ordered 10,000 troops on to the streets to protect sensitive sites - half of them to guard Jewish schools – as it hunts for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorised the nation.

Prime minister Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because “the threat is still present” after the attacks that began on Wednesday with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when three attackers were killed on Friday in two near-simultaneous clashes with security forces around Paris.