French police detain six people suspected of recruiting potential jihadists, just days after another operation saw five charged on similar grounds, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says.
Cazeneuve says in a statement that anti-terrorism magistrates in Paris had ordered Sunday’s raid following a probe opened in January last year into “conspiracy to commit a terrorist act and financing of terrorism.”
A source close to the probe says five people are held in the southern city of Albi and another in the southwest of France.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve at the European Council in Brussels, on December 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand)
All in their 30s, they are suspected of handling questionable money transfers and having recruited candidates to wage jihad.
Investigators are also looking to see if some of the suspects went to Syria, said the source, who wished to remain anonymous.
“This new raid takes place five days after the detention for similar motives of eight people in the Paris and Lyon (southeast) regions, of whom five were charged on Saturday, and four remanded in custody,” Cazeneuve says in his statement.
— AFP
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