PARIS, March 13 (Xinhua) -- French police on Tuesday conducted a raid in the southeastern French city of Isere, arresting five people on alleged links with terrorist cell, according to local media report.
Those arrested -- four men and a woman -- were suspected of recruiting jihadists to join insurgents in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and 2015, the daily newspaper Le Parisien said.
Some detainees were believed to collect money to finance jihadists' stay in the zone of war, it added. Aged between 18 and 53 years, they were placed into custody.
France has become a major target of frequent terrorist attacks following its military operations in Syria, Iraq and the Sahel region.
A wave of attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, had broken several times the calm in France with the bloodiest was at Paris where a series of explosives and shootings left 130 victims three on Nov. 2015.
On October 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron signed anti-terrorism law which he said was necessary to muscle security at home to combat high terrorism menace.
The bill enshrines emergency security rules into ordinary law, allowing police to have more power to search, arrest without judge approval and restrict people movements and gathering.
