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Share on Twitter A Paris court on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping Islamist gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015. Lawyers for the victims and activists hailed a verdict that they said was a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic three-month trial that had revived the horror of the killings. The attacks followed the publication by Charlie Hebdo of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had caus...

Developments. there's more to talk about as well. we have the city's deputy player, patrick klugman. he said, we have no reason for optimism right now. what does that mean to you? >> that we are still at risk, that the threat is very high and that now it's not only a matter of police security intelligence, it's all the population who is becoming fighter terror. >> the media, sometimes even here in paris and certainly the united states, can sometimes exaggerate the negative, play up a wrong side of the story. do you agree with the idea that things are different here, yes, you have cafe society,...

And paris deputy mayor patrick klugman is joining me now. mayor, thank you so much. i know you've had a horrible, horrible few days as a citizen and mayor of this city as it has been so horiffically attacked. i know there have been 150 raids. more than 20 people arrested. what can you tell us about those raids? >> the arrests? >> the arrests, the raids. there's been so much police activity. >> yes. it's going over in france and belgium because apparently planned from syria, of course, where there are training camps of isis. those are from belgium which sometimes appears like in the back for ra...

Armed forces conducting more than 150 raids around the nation since the attacks. 23 people under arrest. the deputy mayor telling me moments ago they don't have an update on those individuals, if any of them were involved or not. they have found caches of weapons, though, including a rocket launcher. president hollande is promising to do whatever it takes to defeat isis. clarissa ward is "outfront." whatever it takes means something that we have not seen in modern times here in france and in the united states, almost anywhere. >> no, we haven't. and you have to remember, erin, france has embra...

>> let me ask you a question. why isn't it a failure that two of these individuals were known to intelligence and still were able to do this? >> well, i prefer that our services our enough -- strong enough to look at these people but maybe not enough to thwart these attacks. many attacks have been avoided, ten, maybe more. so of course it's a failure but that means that we know where to look to find these people so we have just to change the logic. and now with the means that have been announced, the measures, the war in syria, the mobilization of the international community, the european unio...