FRANCE LAUNCHES RAIDS TO ARREST 10 ISLAMIST SUSPECTS
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04.04.2012 11:43
Elite police arrested 10 suspected Islamists in early morning raids
across France on Wednesday in a clampdown ordered by President Nicolas
Sarkozy after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman
last month.
The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by elite police
commandos, carried out arrests in the southern cities of Marseille
and Valence, two towns in the southwest and in the northeastern town
of Roubaix, a police source said.
The raids follow the arrest of 19 people on March 30, a week after
police snipers shot dead al Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed Merah,
who killed three Jewish school children, a rabbi and three soldiers
in a spate of attacks around Toulouse.
“Those arrested have a similar profile to Mohamed Merah,” a
local police source said. “They are isolated individuals, who are
self-radicalized.”
From: A. Papazian