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Defiant Charlie Hebdo puts Mohammed on first cover since attack

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he was putting in place a “powerful and durable” system of protection for France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.

Muslims are also coming under attack, with community leaders reporting more than 50 incidents recorded since the assault on Charlie Hebdo, including apparent arson at a mosque in Poitiers on Sunday.

In German cities on Monday, about 100,000 people demonstrated in support of the country’s multicultural values and against an anti-Islamic movement called PEGIDA, which has tapped growing hostility to immigration across Europe.

At the same time, a record 25,000 people joined a PEGIDA march in the eastern city of Dresden, claiming their stance was vindicated by the Paris attacks.

Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to attend another rally backing an “open and tolerant Germany” on Tuesday in Berlin, alongside the foreign minister and other top officials.

“Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions,” Merkel said Monday.

– Terror watch list –

As well as Coulibaly, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo murders, were known to French intelligence for their extremist leanings.

Valls admitted there were “clear failings” after it emerged that the Kouachis had been on a US terror watch list “for years”.

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He told French radio on Monday he wanted to see an “improved” system of tapping phones.

Valls also said 1,400 people were known to have left to fight in Syria and Iraq, or were planning to do so, up from the 1,200 stated last month. Seventy French citizens have died there.

Said Kouachi, 34, was known to have travelled to Yemen in 2011, where he received weapons training from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. And 32-year-old Cherif was a known jihadist convicted in 2008 for involvement in a network sending fighters from France to Iraq.

Coulibaly was a repeat criminal offender also convicted for extremist activity.

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