Anti-terror raids conducted across France

A French police car.
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French anti-terrorism police raided homes and buildings in Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont, and the Parisian suburb of Bobigny early Monday, French media is reporting.

France's iTélé says in Toulouse, at least three people have been taken into custody, and several arrests were made and weapons seized in Grenoble. The Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID) and Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale (GIPN), both tactical units of the French national police force, are said to have conducted the raids. It is unclear if the raids were directly linked to the attacks in Paris on Friday, The Guardian reports.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.