Manuel Valls

The French government has confiscated the personal documents of six local citizens on account of their planned trips to Syria on Monday.

The passports and other personal documents will be held for six months initially, but the term could be further extended if needed, as reported by the Bulgarian National radio.

France will implement ''exceptional'' measures to reinforce its counter-terrorism efforts, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday following armed attacks by Islamic militants in Paris earlier this month.

France unveiled a raft of measures Jan. 21 to curb radicalisation and better monitor jihadists two weeks after an Islamist killing spree in Paris that sent shockwaves across Europe.
      
Jitters from the worst attack on French soil in decades have spread to the country's neighbours and the European Union is also expected to reveal new counterterrorism measures on Wednesday.

French and European officials will unveil details of anti-terror measures Jan. 21 to counter threats of new attacks and strengthen cooperation in the wake of deadly shootings in Paris.
      
In the French capital, on high alert since jihadist attacks left 17 dead two weeks ago, Prime Minister Manuel Valls will outline promised measures to boost security forces.
      

Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France's "geographical, social and ethnic apartheid", Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Jan. 20 in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure.
   

France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Jan. 12 that the gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket probably had an accomplice.
      

Thousands of police deployed near Jewish schools

PARIS -- Almost 5,000 members of the French police will guard Jewish schools, it has been announced in Paris.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls also said that the search continues for an accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly.

A total of 7 people have been arrested during the huge-scale special operation overnight aimed at hunting down the two men suspected of killing 12 people in French weekly Charlie Hebdo's offices.

France's Foreign Ministry has confirmed the information.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sent a telegram of condolences to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls over the Wednesday terrorist attack in Paris which claimed lives of ten journalists and two police officers.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday that French fighter jets are expected to arrive in Jordan and join operations against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.