At least 5 000 of these will be used to protect 700 Jewish schools. One of them is believed to have been the original target when a nearby Jewish grocery store was attacked by a jihadi who killed four hostages before being cut down by security forces.

Wounded and fragile after the worst terrorist attacks in five decades, France is looking at how to prevent a recurrence of outrages like the killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish grocery store in Paris.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the terrorist threat still exists.

The Jewish community feel particularly vulnerable.

14 000 Jews left the country last year.

Valls insists that France would not be France without the Jews.

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….and another to kill four people at a Jewish grocery store.

In South Africa, French Ambassador Elizabeth Barbier will lead a rally at Zoo Lake in Johannesburg. Others will be held in Cape Town and Durban.

World leaders will join the gathering in Paris, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British premier David Cameron and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy have said they’ll be there.

They’ll be protected by six thousand police.

France remains on a highest state of alert even though the hostage-takers died in deadly gunbattles with police.

The search for their accomplices continues.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says France must remain outraged forever at the worst terrorist attack in more than 50 years.

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