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France Still on High Alert Two Months After Deadly Paris Attacks

© REUTERS / Youssef BoudlalFrench police stand in front of the entrance of the Paris Grand Mosque as part of the highest level of "Vigipirate" security plan after last week's Islamic militants attacks January 13, 2015
French police stand in front of the entrance of the Paris Grand Mosque as part of the highest level of Vigipirate security plan after last week's Islamic militants attacks January 13, 2015 - Sputnik International
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According to French President Francois Hollande’s website, government-declared terrorist threat level in France remains "high" two months after Islamist gunmen shot and killed over a dozen people in Paris.

French police stand in front of the entrance of the Paris Grand Mosque as part of the highest level of Vigipirate security plan after last week's Islamic militants attacks January 13, 2015 - Sputnik International
France's High Terror Alert Exhausting Both Troops and Treasury
MOSCOW (Sputnik) The government-declared terrorist threat level in France remains "high" two months after Islamist gunmen shot and killed over a dozen people in Paris, a statement on French President Francois Hollande’s website said Wednesday.

“Since the threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high, the head of state has decided to keep up to 10,000 armed troops mobilized in the national territory to support security forces of the Interior Ministry,” the statement on Hollande’s webpage said, following a Security Council meeting.

French president Francois Hollande - Sputnik International
Hollande Says High Terror Threat Level Remains in France

Hollande's statement comes during a commemoration of victims of recent and past terror attacks as part of the 11th annual European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorism, which keeps alive the memory of the Madrid train bombings. The 2004 attack in the Spanish capital killed 191 commuters and injured at least 1,800.

France has been on security alert since a series of deadly shootings over three days by suspected Islamic extremists in and around Paris claimed the lives of 17 people in early January. The Paris atrocities are believed to have inspired another shooting spree in Copenhagen, Denmark, in which two people were killed.

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