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23 held, weapons seized in France crackdown

Published Mon, Nov 16, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Paris

FRENCH officials seized weapons including a rocket launcher in raids on suspected Islamic radicals, and coalition forces expanded their aerial bombardment of ISIS in Syria as the extremists warned more attacks were coming.

Investigators conducted 168 overnight searches in all of France's major cities, making 23 arrests and seizing 31 weapons, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a briefing in Paris on Monday.

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