France deploys 10,000 troops to guard sensitive sites

France on Monday ordered 10,000 troops into the streets to protect sensitive sites after three days of bloodshed, amid the hunt for accomplices to the attacks that left 17 people and the three gunmen dead last week.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because "the threat is still present" after the attacks that began Wednesday with fatal shootings at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when the three attackers were killed Friday in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.

Jean-Yves Le Drian said the troop deployment will be fully in place by Tuesday, and will focus on the most sensitive locations.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 4,700 security forces would be assigned to protect France's 717 Jewish schools.

Last week's attacks drew widespread condemnation from world leaders, many of whom marched in a colossal unity rally in Paris on Sunday. On Monday, Pope Francis denounced the attacks, saying the cuplrits were enslaved by "deviant forms of religion" that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings.

"Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext," Francis said.

Meanwhile, Turkey’s foreign minister said Monday that the common-law wife of one of the attackers crossed into Syria on Thursday, the day after the Charlie Hebdo killings, and the same day her husband shot a policewoman to death on the outskirts of Paris.

Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency that Hayat Boumedienne had arrived in Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2, ahead of the attacks, and stayed at a hotel in Istanbul with another person before crossing into Syria on Thursday.

Turkish intelligence had tracked Boumeddiene from her arrival on Jan 2. She and her traveling companion, a 23-year-old man, toured Istanbul, then left Jan. 4 for a town near the border, according to a Turkish intelligence official, who was not authorized to speak on the record.

Her last phone signal was on Jan. 8 from the border town of Akcakale, where she apparently crossed over into territory controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Their Jan. 9 return tickets to Madrid went unused.

Survivors say the Charlie Hebdo attackers, brothers from Paris, claimed they were from Al-Qaeda in Yemen, the group the United States considers the most dangerous offshoot of that network. In the video, Coulibaly pledges allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Ties among the men date back to at least 2005, when Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi were jailed together. It later emerged that Cherif's older brother, Said, fought with or was trained by Al-Qaeda in Yemen; Cherif was convicted in 2008 along with several others in a network that sent jihadis to fight American forces in Iraq.

Charlie Hebdo's remaining members are working on an eight-page issue due to come out Wednesday with a print run of 1 million copies. Its lawyer, Richard Malka, told France Info radio there would be caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

"We will not give in. The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme," he said, adding that the front page would be released on Monday evening.

Al Jazeera and wire services