Soldiers on every street corner, seven gendarme vans, police patrols.
The visit of the Minister of the Interior this Sunday morning to the Boulogne-Billancourt synagogue (Hauts-de-Seine) did not go unnoticed.
Two days after the chopper attack in front of the former Charlie Hebdo premises, which injured two journalists, Gérald Darmanin tries to regain control and wants to remind "the French people": "we are still at war, we must win this war and everyone must be vigilant ”.
If the threat was probably undervalued in the rue Nicolas-Appert, where the attack occurred on Friday - no security device was deployed in front of the former premises of the satirical newspaper even as the trial of the events of 2015 is taking place at the moment - the minister assured that "the government has not let down its guard".
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Surrounded by representatives of the Jewish community, the boss of Place Beauvau hammers it: "I note above all that there are 32 attacks that have been foiled, about one per month, for three years".
During this weekend of services, on the eve of the feast of Yom Kippur, the Interior is mobilizing more than 7,000 police and soldiers to secure 774 points, schools and synagogues in France.
More than half of the religious buildings are in Ile-de-France, according to Joël Mergui, president of the consistory of Paris, which concentrates the largest Jewish community in France.
"It rekindles concerns"
Greeting the soldiers and sentries on the outskirts of the religious building, the minister, accompanied by the prefect of police Didier Lallement, reviewed the reinforced security system on the occasion of the most important celebration of the Hebrew calendar.
"I came to tell the Jewish community today and tomorrow that we are protecting it and that the State is there to protect it", assured Gérald Darnanin, who will be in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), this Tuesday, as he had planned before Friday's attack.
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But there is no need to remind the Jewish community of this vigilance, particularly on the alert on the Day of Atonement.
“The fear is still there, it is not more important.
There is no more risk today than yesterday, but with the attack on Friday and the trial at the moment, it rekindles concerns with the approach of important holidays ”, notes Elie Korchia, president of the Jewish communities des Hauts-de-Seine, where 57 points will be particularly monitored.
Despite everything, the community has learned to live with this threat.
"Everyone has learned to be careful about their own safety," explains Robert Ejnes, president of the Jewish community of Boulogne-Billancour t, which has 15,000 members.
A device specific to the Jewish community
But he expects from the government a "more visible presence" of the military.
“It depends on the time of year, there are times when there is a lot of security and on some Shabbat there is none.
When the situation calms down, it goes down again, ”confirms in unison three young faithful at the exit of the synagogue.
On the resources deployed, the president of the consistory of Paris is more embarrassed.
“You can never say it's enough.
The means put in place are the means that the State can put in place, it is not my role to assess it.
But as long as there are anti-Semitic acts, we will have to multiply the means, ”explains Joël Mergui.
That being said, the community has also deployed its own resources to ensure its safety.
It has set up for 40 years and the bombing of the rue Copernicus in Paris (which left four dead and forty wounded in 1980), a protection group made up of parents and faithful volunteers trained to see and estimate the risk.
According to Robert Ejnes, there would be around ten volunteers per site at all times.
"This security protocol has become more accentuated and professionalized over the past 20 years", specifies Elie Korchia.
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