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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Police are reportedly hunting for a third man in connection with the murders
after placing Mr Merah’s older brother, Abdelkader, under investigation.
However, sources said there was no direct link with those arrested yesterday,
seventeen of whom are being held for questioning.
Speaking shortly after the raids, Mr Sarkozy said: “It’s our duty to
guarantee the security of the French people. We have no choice. It’s
absolutely indispensable.”
Raids also took place in Nantes, believed to be a centre for the Forsane
Alizza (Knights of Pride) group, to which Mr Merah had been linked by some
French media.
Among those arrests was Mohammed Achamlane, the suspected leader of the
Salafist group, which France’s council of ministers dissolved last month due
to “incitement to armed struggle”. Three Kalashnikovs, a Glock
pistol and a grenade were seized at his home, police sources said.
Other arrests took place in Lyons, Marseilles, Paris, Nice, Rouen and Le Mans.
With around 100 suspected Islamist radicals on a police top watch list, Mr
Sarkozy warned that there would be “other operations”.
“(These) will also allow us to expel from our national territory a
certain number of people,” said the conservative president, whose
handling of the Toulouse crisis has helped him overtake his Socialist rival
François Hollande in polls for round one of presidential elections in April
and narrow the gap for the May 6 run-off. A CSA poll out on Thursday placed
Mr Hollande on 53 per cent for round two with 47 per cent for Mr Sarkozy,
his best score since he launched his re-election campaign.
Steeve Briois, the general secretary of the far-right National Front, branded
the arrests “an electoral manoeuvre”.
“The ‘big haul’ made overnight by the DCRI and the RAID – the elite
police unit that shot Merah – doesn’t fool anyone,” he said in a
statement.
“Waiting for the horror of the Toulouse killings to start taking action
shows the cynicism and opportunism of Nicolas Sarkozy.”
But Interior Minister Claude Guéant replied: “These are people who
on the web … claimed support for a radical extremist ideology, for an
ideology of combat.” “As for whether this is a public relations
operation, I would remind you that this was a judicial decision.”
Mr Sarkozy’s comparison with the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US was
slammed as “totally disproportionate” by far-Left candidate
Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“It’s a desire to play with fear, which is not acceptable,” said the
Left Front leader.
On Thursday, France banned four Muslim preachers from entering the country for
a conference, saying their “calls for hatred and violence” were a
threat to public order.
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