France Considers Deploying Army to Protect Jewish Sites While European Jews Seek Gun Permits

By Sharona Schwartz

French Jewish leaders say President Francois Hollande told them Jewish schools and synagogues will be protected “if necessary” by the French army, while a European Jewish leader says he has reached out to European ministers to request gun permits for Jews.

Hollande met the Jewish leaders Sunday in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris in which four shoppers were killed.

“He told us that all the schools, all the synagogues will be protected, if necessary, on top of the police, by the army,” said Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, …read more

Via:: The Blaze