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Thursday 03 Dec 2015 - 14:09 Makkah mean time-21-2-1437
Bernard Cazeneuve (AFP Photo)
Paris (IINA) – French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday that police had arrested 232 people and shut down three mosques under emergency laws passed in the wake of last month's Paris terrorist attacks, France 24 reported.
He said police had raided one of the mosques in Lagny-sur-Marne, an eastern Paris suburb, earlier in the day, placing nine people under house arrest and banning 22 from leaving the country.
Cazeneuve said police had carried out 2,235 raids across the country since the November 13 terrorist attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers, in which 130 people were killed. He added that police had seized 334 weapons, including 24 military-grade weapons.
The French government launched a sweeping crackdown on terrorist groups in the wake of the Paris attacks, giving police broad powers under a state of emergency that lawmakers have prolonged until February.
While opinion polls suggest that the state of emergency enjoys considerable support among the French public, rights groups and some politicians have recently voiced concern about reports of police abuses.
Cazeneuve rejected their criticism, saying: “It is terrorism, not the state of emergency, which threatens freedom.”
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