Sunday, October 7, 2012

French Police Aiming at Homegrown Terrorists

French police killed one and arrested ten others during an anti terror sweep on Saturday.

was killed opened fire upon police when they came to arrest him.

None of the officers involved were injured.

Police had linked the suspects to being part of a terrorist cell which had launched an attack in September.

Sidney's DNA had been found on the remnants of a grenade that had been used in the September attack.

The others are being questioned under suspicion of terrorism, but have not been fully charged yet.

Authorities are looking for a few more people, in relation to the cell, but feel they have shut it down by taking out all the key players.

President Hollande recently pledged to end all homegrown terrorist organizations and signed laws allowing police to do more towards locating such groups.

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