French police arrested four people on Monday suspected of ties with Islamist groups fighting in Syria, the interior minister said, after the country introduced new measures to stop its citizens from becoming radicalized.
France, a staunch opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has targeted violent cells and self-radicalized operators planning attacks in the country since a Toulouse-based al Qaeda-inspired gunman shot dead seven people in 2012.
Monday's arrests came a day after prosecutors said Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old Frenchman thought to have returned recently from Syria, had been arrested over the May 24 killing of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum.
"The fight against terrorists will happen not only in France, but all over Europe with no respite," Bernard Cazeneuve told Europe 1 radio after the arrests in the Paris region and southern France.
He said the four people had either helped recruit radical Islamists for Syria or been part of jihadist networks there.
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