Police have additional powers under a state of emergency declared after the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and more than 350 injured. At least one person has been arrested during the raid, DH newspaper reported.
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Police sources in Paris said “several dozen” pre-dawn raids were carried out in French cities on Monday, including in Bobigny, an eastern suburb of the capital.
Under pressure from Western allies to ramp up its fight against Islamic State, Ankara opened up its air bases to the U.S.-led coalition in July and has tightened border controls to try to stop the flow of foreign jihadists.
Links between French and Belgian jihadist groups have been revealed before.
Belgian Bilal Hadfi, 20, who had spent time fighting with ISIS in Syria before returning to Europe, detonated his suicide vest at the Stade de France where three died.
The raid included 12 aircraft, including 10 fighter jets and was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, officials with the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The bombs targeted a command center, including an arms depot and a recruiting post, and a training camp, the official said.
There was no word on casualties or the damage inflicted.
Amimour is “known to anti-terrorist investigators” and was charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism in 2012 over a failed attack in Yemen. One of the people who had hired the cars slipped through the fingers of the police.
A French official told the Associated Press Monday that they suspect the Parisian terror attacks were orchestrated by a Belgian citizen, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Salah Abdeslam was raised in Molenbeek, French and Belgian authorities said earlier.
On Monday morning, authorities identified two more suicide bombers connected to Friday’s attacks in Paris.
“There’s no doubt that they… certainly had accomplices that had done reconnoitring of those sites, and that means they had logisticians, transport people, they undoubtedly had a safe house, or indeed, multiple safe houses, people who procured the motor vehicles”, he said.
“It is all so senseless”.
The death toll from the attacks has risen to 132.
Prosecutors said they believed three groups of attackers were involved in the carnage, and they have not ruled out that one or more assailants may still be at large.
Seven attackers have been named so far, with one confirmed to have entered Greece amongst refugees earlier this year.
Tantalizing clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials told the AP that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack. It was a false alarm, police said.
“The attacks were planned overseas, and mobilized a team operating from Belgium, which may have received help from France”, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
At a G20 summit in Turkey, US President Barack Obama vowed to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State and prevent it carrying out attacks like those in Paris.
European Union leaders urged Russian Federation to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists.
As night fell over the jittery French capital on Sunday, crowds shocked by the brutality of the killings packed into the Notre-Dame cathedral to mourn the dead.
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But far-right populist Marine Le Pen is now making gains by blaming France’s security problems on immigration and Islam.
