Paris - As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the slain gunmen, police officials said on Monday.
Two French police officials told The Associated Press that authorities were searching the Paris area for the Mini Cooper registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of Amedy Coulibaly. She is now in Syria, according to Turkish officials.
The French police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to discuss details of the investigation with the news media.
France deployed 10 000 troops to protect sensitive sites — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods — in the wake of the attacks that killed 17 people last week. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, as well as Coulibaly, their friend who claimed ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, died on Friday in clashes with police.
Prime minister Manuel Valls said the manhunt is urgent because "the threat is still present" after the attacks that began on Wednesday with 12 people killed at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A policewoman was killed on Thursday, and four people were slain at a kosher supermarket on Friday before the gunmen were killed by police in two nearly simultaneous clashes with security forces around Paris.