Five arrested in French anti-terror raids released

Four of them, students aged between 20 and 23 years old, were released on Saturday and a fifth man, a student born in 2002, who the authorities identified as being radicalised, was released on Sunday.

They had been arrested following fears that some kind of attack was being planned.

But a source close to the case said Monday there was for the moment no new evidence to support that theory, even if the investigation was continuing.

Friday’s arrests took place in Nancy and two other towns in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of northern France.

The suspects, picked up by the intelligence services, belong to an Islamist movement, according to another source.

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