French police raid 128 more houses overnight

French prime minister Manuel Valls said “we are at war” against terrorism.

The police conducted the searches in 19 departments and all major cities in the country, Cazeneuve told a press conference here.

Social media have been flooded by photos of dozens of armed officers apparently detaining suspects and numerous police vehicles driving in the city.

Anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by right-wing groups are high in France following the Paris attacks for which the Isis has claimed responsibility.

Since the attacks by French Islamists at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris at the beginning of the year, attention has been drawn upon the country’s Muslim population.

Police reportedly made several arrests, seizing weapons and money. We don’t know how many people were arrested as a result of these raids.

“In Grenoble, there have been more arrests and on the French border with Belgium too and yet more people arrested”.

The raids come amid an global manhunt for a 26-year-old French national suspected of being “directly involved” in the attacks.

The raids in Toulouse occurred in the area that was home to Mohamed Merah, who carried out a series of three gun attacks targeting French soldiers and Jewish civilians in 2012, said Bfmtv.

Only one of the raids had a, however, in Bobigny, north-east of Paris where police reportedly swooped on an individual thought to be linked to Samy Amimour, born in 1987 and wanted via an worldwide arrest warrant for having violated judicial controls.

French authorities have also released the names of two more potential suicide bombers involved in the attacks. Their relatives have been detained and are being questioned.

The investigation said that up to 20 perpetrators might have been behind the deadly assaults in France’s capital.

The five people have been placed in custody, according to AFP.