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Paris attacks: France boosts anti-terror strategy Paris attacks: France boosts anti-terror strategy
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France is to create 2,680 new jobs and boost spending by 425m euros (£325m) to bolster counter-terrorism efforts, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said. France is to create 2,680 new jobs and boost spending by €425m (£325m; $490m) to bolster counter-terrorism efforts, Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said.
He said such resources were crucial to dealing with an expanded extremist threat, with 3,000 people currently requiring surveillance across France.He said such resources were crucial to dealing with an expanded extremist threat, with 3,000 people currently requiring surveillance across France.
Mr Valls was laying out the government's plans following attacks in Paris in which 17 were killed. Mr Valls set out the government's plans following Islamist militant attacks in Paris in which 17 were killed.
Earlier, a prosecutor gave details on four men charged over the attacks.Earlier, a prosecutor gave details on four men charged over the attacks.
Three of the men are alleged to have helped supply arms to Amedy Coulibaly, who is believed to have shot dead a policewoman on 8 January, a day before attacking a Jewish supermarket in Paris where four hostages were killed.Three of the men are alleged to have helped supply arms to Amedy Coulibaly, who is believed to have shot dead a policewoman on 8 January, a day before attacking a Jewish supermarket in Paris where four hostages were killed.
On 7 January two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, attacked the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12. All three gunmen were shot dead by police. On 7 January, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12. All three gunmen were shot dead by police.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that international co-operation with authorities in Turkey, Spain and Belgium would continue, as investigators sought information on possible accomplices, the suspects' travel records, and information about how they got their weapons. The Kouachi brothers allegedly shouted that they were "avenging" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the magazine.
Announcing new counter-terrorism resources, Mr Valls said security forces would be provided with better equipment and protection, including bullet-proof vests. In other developments:
'Relentless fight'
Mr Valls said security forces would be provided with better weapons and protection, including bullet-proof vests.
"We will pursue this fight against terrorism relentlessly," he said."We will pursue this fight against terrorism relentlessly," he said.
Since the attacks, France has deployed more than 10,000 troops across the country to protect public spaces and sensitive sites such as schools, synagogues and mosque. The new jobs will be created over a period of three years. Some 1,400 will be created through the interior ministry, mostly in counter-terrorism intelligence, with other posts to be opened at the ministries of justice, defence and finance.
Analysis: Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris
The security service reinforcements are a recognition that France's intelligence-gathering - normally held up as a paragon in Europe - has fallen behind the times. New officers are needed but also new equipment, and new methods.
Manuel Valls said nearly 3,000 individuals needed to be monitored today. Nearly half of these are people who have been or are planning to go to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State. The others are from older radicalised networks. One lesson of the Kouachi-Coulibaly attacks is that these older networks cannot be neglected.
Intelligence experts in France say it takes 20 officers on the ground to provide round-the-clock monitoring of a suspect. Obviously this is impossible for 3,000 individuals.
Recruiting more men and women for gumshoe work will help. But the higher priority is for analysts: people who can make sense of masses of accumulated electronic information.
The French prime minister also stressed the threat resulting from people travelling to fight in Syria and Iraq.
"One thing is certain," he said. "The number of people who are radicalised and capable of carrying out attacks on our soil hasn't stopped increasing."
Of those who the authorities need to monitor, Mr Valls said there were now nearly 1,300 people residing in France and suspected of links to networks active in Syria and Iraq - a number that had increased by 130% in a year.
There were, he said, another 400-500 people suspected of links to older extremist networks and others who were active in the francophone "cyber-jihadist" sphere.
Mr Valls announced a series of other measures, including:
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said international co-operation with authorities in Turkey, Spain and Belgium would continue, as investigators sought information on possible accomplices, the suspects' travel records and information about how they had got their weapons.
France has deployed more than 10,000 troops across the country to protect public spaces and sensitive sites such as schools, synagogues and mosques.
Authorities in several European countries apprehended terrorist suspects following the Paris attacks. In Belgium, two men alleged to have been planning an attack against the police were shot dead in an anti-terror raid last week.