French Prime Minister Manuel Valls |
PARIS (Reuters) --- French police raided
homes of suspected Islamist militants across the country overnight in the
aftermath of the Paris
shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday as he warned of
potential further attacks.
Valls said that
since this summer, French intelligence services had prevented five attacks.
"We know that
more attacks are being prepared, not just against France but also against other
European countries," Valls said on RTL radio.
Police sources told
Reuters that authorities conducted at least 110 house searches in cities around
France
overnight. One of these searches, in the Paris
suburb of Bobigny, was part of the judicial investigation into the attacks at a
football stadium, bars and a concert hall and where at least 129 people died.
The death toll was
put 132 on Sunday, but reports on Monday said that increase may have been a
counting error.
French media said
police also raided houses in Toulouse , Grenoble and Bobigny.
"We are making
use of the legal framework of the state of emergency to question people who are
part of the radical jihadist movement...and all those who advocate hate of the
republic," Valls said.
On Friday, three
coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers carried out the wave of attacks
across Paris in
what President Francois Hollande called an "act of war" by Islamic
State.
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