The France 24 website reports that police in France arrested at least 17 people at dawn today (March 30, 2012) over suspected links to militant Islamist circles in several cities across the country, including Nantes, Le Mans, Toulouse, and suburbs of Paris.
Cedric Delage -- the Toulouse regional secretary for the French police union, USNA-Police -- said the raids were conducted "to look for groups or individuals who may be dangerous to the French state."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- who ordered a crackdown on radical Islamists following the recent deadly Toulouse shootings -- said only that "the raids are in connection with a form of Islamist radicalism."
Today's arrests come a day after Mohamed Merah -- the gunman who killed seven people in southwest France -- was buried in Toulouse, since his native Algeria refused to allow him to be buried in that nation.
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