Maximum security in two shopping centers in Paris

Enhanced security Quatre Temps in the district of La Defense in Paris and the Forum des Halles, in the center of the French capital.

Both shopping centers are in the viewfinder Shebab, jihadists affiliated to Al Qaeda in Somalia.

They called to reproduce attacks like the one conducted at the Westgate in Nairobi, Kenya, in late 2013. The attack left 67 dead and over 175 injured.

"We are on a specific device since Monday morning," said Nicolas Kozubek, the mall manager Les Quatre Temps. This device "translates reinforcements even beyond the device" Vigipirate attack alert ", which is already in place for several weeks and through collaboration in terms of video means that very regular trade is with the forces of order in about that, "he adds.

In 2014, 46 million people passed through the Four Time, in the heart of the business district of Paris. It is the busiest commercial center of the country.

"It is on the lookout but we can not help but live either," said Brigitte Mille, a customer. It is necessary that life is done, you can die at home ... But actually, one is in fear. "

The threat was specifically formulated against commercial areas in the United States, Canada and London: The Mall of America in Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton or Oxford Street in London. The French shopping centers appear photograph them.

But the credibility of this video, identified by SITE (the US central monitoring Islamist websites) is controversial. Because it looks like those already made by Shebab, but it would not have been published by their usual channels.