French officials say three men have been arrested in widely spread anti-terrorism raids and a bomb squad has been deployed at the home of one of the men.
Two officials said the arrests came in central Clermont-Ferrand, southern Marseille and the Paris region. The bomb squad was dispatched to Clermont-Ferrand, but the officials offered no details on any alleged plans by the three men detained.
Tuesday’s arrests come less than two weeks after anti-terrorism forces detained an adolescent girl and three men and uncovered what they described as a makeshift explosives lab.
