Anti-jihadist raids net five in France, three in Belgium


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 Jan 2015

PARIS (Reuters) - Police in France and Belgium arrested eight suspected militant Islamists on Tuesday in dawn raids three weeks after jihadists killed 17 people in Paris.

"A particularly dangerous and organised network was broken up today," said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, whose government has deployed thousands of soldiers and extra police since the Jan. 7-9 attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.

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