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Police have seized a rocket launcher as they
carried out a series of raids across France,
according to French media.
The French interior ministry has said that 168
searches have taken place across the country in
the wake of terror attacks in Paris on Friday.
Sixty searches in Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Grenoble,
Marseille and Toulouse resulted in the rocket
launcher, flak jackets, 15 hand guns and eight
other "weapons of war" being seized, according to
Le Figaro.
Interior minister Bernard Cazaneuve said that a
total of 31 weapons have been seized so far and
104 suspected jihadists are under house arrest
with 23 taken into custody overnight.
Manuel Valls talks to French radio station RTL
Among the items recovered in raids in the Rhone
region were police armbands, police clothing and
several weapons.
Mr Cazeneuve said: "This is just the beginning...
The response of the Republic will be total... The
terrorists will never destroy the Republic, because
it is the Republic that will destroy them. "
Other areas where police are understood to have
carried out raids are Jeumont and the Parisian
communes of Bobigny and Saint-Denis.
The raids were carried out under a series of
powers that have been put in place by French
President Francois Hollande since the massacre
which left 129 dead.
Posted by: Philip Ochika
