French police have arrested four people suspected of links with jihadist networks, three days after detaining a man for last week's deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced the sweep on Europe1 radio on Monday but did not specify if the arrests in the Paris region and southern France were linked to the Brussels shooting suspect Mehdi Nemmouche.
"There are those who recruit jihadists," Cazeneuve said. "As we speak there have been arrests in the Ile-de-France and in the south of France."
The minister said he would not elaborate further at this stage but a police source said three of detainees were suspected of recruiting fighters.
Nemmouche, 29, who was arrested on Friday in the southern French city of Marseille, is believed to have recorded a claim of responsibility for the May 24 Brussels attack in a 40-second video found in his possession along with a Kalashnikov and a handgun.
A lone gunman entered the Jewish museum in the heart of Brussels last Saturday, removed an automatic rifle from a bag and opened fire through a door before leaving.
An Israeli couple and a Frenchwoman died on the scene and a 24-year-old Belgian man is in critical condition.
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