Authorities have placed under investigation a Frenchman captured in Australia for alleged links to the al-Qaida terror network, French officials said Monday. Willie Virgile Brigitte, 35, is in custody in a Paris area jail where he is being held on suspicion of association with a terror group, French police and justice officials told The Associated Press. In Australia, which sent Brigitte back to France earlier this month, authorities raided several homes in Sydney on Sunday and interviewed people who may have known him. No arrests were made. Premier Bob Carr of New South Wales state, where Sydney is located, said Brigitte’s arrest may have disrupted a terror cell there. “It’s likely that they (authorities) are breaking up now some cell that has existed in Sydney,” Carr said. Full Story
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