10 thousands of military will guard facilities in France

Ten thousand military personnel will be involved in France to protect civilian objects that may be attacked by extremists.

This decision was made at the meeting of French President François Hollande with members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the leadership of law enforcement agencies held in Paris.

The meeting discussed security measures and steps to combat Islamic extremism in the light of the tragic events of the past week.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the military from Tuesday will begin to protect the most important facilities.

In addition, five thousand police and security personnel will guard 700 Jewish schools in the country.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazneuve reported this to the parents of Jewish schoolchildren at a meeting in an area in the south of Paris, where a police woman was shot dead on Thursday.

At the meeting, in particular, a question was raised that worries many in France: how did it happen that the extremists, who were well known to the authorities, were able to commit attack on the police-guarded editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine and kill 12 people.

Equally worrisome is Friday's kosher supermarket hostage-taking that killed four shoppers.

In total, 17 people became victims of attacks by extremists on the editorial office of the magazine, police officers and a Jewish store last week.

"Clear blunders"

Last week, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls acknowledged "clear failings" by the security services after it emerged that Charlie Hebdo attackers Said and Chérif Kouachi and supermarket hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly were well known to the security services, and two of them were involved in criminal liability for extremism.

The Kouachi brothers were on the lists of terrorist suspects in the US and British intelligence agencies.

Kulibali received a prison sentence for plotting an Islamist militant's escape from prison. In prison, he met Sheriff Kouachi.

Amedi Kulibani and the Kouachi brothers were killed on Friday during a police operation to capture them, writes BBC News.