NYC goes on highest security alert in wake of Paris attacks

New York City put its security on high alert in the wake of last week’s attacks in Paris.

Following the deadly incidents in Paris, additional security was placed at the French Consulate on the Upper East Side, WABC-TV reported. The Police Department also added more security at high-profile French and Jewish sites, WABC reported, citing Mayor Bill deBlasio’s office.

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday said in an interview with CNN, “What we saw in France over the course of this last week is unfortunately what we’re going to have to confront in the future. We’ve seen these kinds of attempts in the United States.”

He added, “This is the nature of the new threat we must confront.”

Police and security, some private, was stepped up in Jewish neighborhoods of London in the wake of the attacks, according to the London-based Jewish Chronicle.

On Monday French police said 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 gunmen.

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. Turkish officials say she is now in Syria.

France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites — nearly half of them to guard Jewish schools — as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because “the threat is still present” after the attacks that began Wednesday with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when three attackers were killed Friday in two nearly simultaneous clashes with security forces around Paris.

AP contributed to this report.