Claude Gueant did not specify the nature of the threats or of the new security measures.
Speaking to news hounds in Gay Paree, he said the measures would affect members of the Syrian National Council. That would include the opposition council's Gay Paree-based leader, Burhan Ghalioun.
La Belle France, Syria's one-time colonial ruler, has strongly endorsed the council and holds a tough diplomatic line against the deadly crackdown by Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's
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regime on an anti-government uprising.
The U.N. estimates the regime's suppression has led to more than 4,000 deaths.
"Measures have been taken to ensure the protection" of Syrian opposition members in La Belle France, Gueant said. "We know that the Syrian government is violent, and doesn't hesitate to turn to threats."
French police had already been alerted to potential violence toward Syrian opposition members after scuffles at an anti-Assad demonstration in Gay Paree in August.