At least three people have already been taken into custody after the Toulouse raids, according to local media.
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Anti-terrorism forces undertook coordinated raids across France early Monday morning, The Guardian reports.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater, reporting from Paris, said about 200 members of police tactical units surrounded an address in Toulouse.
In the raid in Jeumont on the French Belgian border where the house was been searched, at least twenty police vans were been used.
A search warrant has been issued for Salah Abdeslam said to be one of the perpetrators of the attacks.
The French citizen had been known to police for his alleged links to armed groups but had not been previously linked to violent activities.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said police arrested 23 people and recovered a Kalashnikov and other weapons during the overnight raids.
The raids were carried out under the emergency powers claimed under the French Constitution by President Francois Hollande within hours of Friday’s attack, the site reported. Over the weekend Greek authorities said the passport was registered on the island of Leros on October 3 but suggested it could be a fake.
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Four of the five suicide attackers who have been identified were French, but evidence that one of them entered Europe along with hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees has led a number of politicians, from both mainstream and extreme parties, to question current European policies regarding the refugee crisis. Marie Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, has called for a tightening of the country’s borders.
