A police operation in the mosque at Lagny-sur-Marne, east of Paris, on Wednesday led to 22 people being banned from leaving France and nine others were assigned to residence.
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In Wednesday’s raid authorities also confiscated a 9 millimeter pistol, a computer hard drive concealed behind a wall and jihadist propaganda.
Cazeneuve later told parliament that there had been 2,235 searches leading to 263 arrests since the three-month state of emergency began. Additionally, reporters were told by Cazaneuve, records were found by cops about an unregistered Koranic school.
The mosques have been shut down as part of a crackdown on extremist activities. Ten of his former pupils, according to French legal documents, have already joined the Islamic State or the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria.
Two other mosques were closed last week in Lyon and Gennevilliers, another Paris suburb, he said. At least three were connected to a October 2012 grenade attack on a kosher grocery store.
The majority of the 130 casualties of expired at the Bataclan theater, where gunmen shot at concertgoers before blowing themselves up with suicide bombs. The apparent ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed along with two other people by police on a raid on an apartment in northern Paris five days after the attacks.
While opinion polls suggest 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. Authorities are still on the hunt for Salah Abdeslam, 26, who is suspected of being involved in the assaults.
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Cazeneuve rejected their criticism, saying: “It is terrorism, not the state of emergency, which threatens freedoms”.
