Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, announced new investment in the French intelligence services in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
PARIS — Two weeks after one of the deadliest attacks ever to hit France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced “exceptional” measures on Wednesday to fight terrorism, including creating thousands of new counterterrorism jobs to intensify the monitoring of nearly 3,000 people the police consider surveillance targets.
The moves would reinforce a set of existing laws already considered to be among the strictest in Europe.
Mr. Valls made his announcements at a news conference after France formally charged and detained four men accused of providing logistical support to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunmen involved in the three-day onslaught in which 17 people were killed in and around Paris.
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Mr. Coulibaly was later killed by the police as they stormed the supermarket.
Mr. Molins said that three men he identified as “Willy P., Christophe R. and Tonino G.” went to buy tactical body armor, knives, Tasers and tear gases for Mr. Coulibaly last year.
“We think that there is a group of people who agreed to help within the context of an agreement, and all of that was useful to undertake a terrorist act,” Mr. Molins said.
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the number of days that passed between a routine traffic stop of Amedy Coulibaly and the day the attacks began. It was eight days, not 10.
