PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Wednesday that the authorities have to monitor nearly 3,000 people involved in "terrorist networks", as he unveiled measures to combat jihadism after the Paris attacks.

He said the number of people linked to networks in Iraq and Syria had jumped 130 percent in the past year.

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