MAIS "MALUQUINHOS":

"Television channels showed images of the early morning raids, with agents from the RAID police commando unit and anti-terrorist specialists bashing down doors, smashing windows, and taking suspects away handcuffed and with their faces covered.

Five rifles, three Kalashnikovs, four handguns and a bullet-proof vest were seized in the operation, Gueant said.

A police source said about 20 people had been arrested in Toulouse in the southwest, Nantes in western France and also in the Paris region and the southeast. Sarkozy put the number of arrests at 19."