法国总统萨科齐说，警察在全国各地打击伊斯兰极端分子嫌疑人，已经逮捕了19人。
萨科齐说，星期五在图卢兹等地的突击搜捕行动收缴了枪支。稍早的报道曾说有20人被逮捕。
这一轮突击搜捕行动发生在伊斯兰极端主义枪手穆罕默德·默拉在图卢兹地区的一系列杀人事件之后。默拉星期四被葬在图卢兹，不过，图卢兹市长反对他葬在当地，他家人的故乡阿尔及利亚也拒绝让他回乡安葬。
默拉上星期四在与警察进行了32小时的僵持后，从自己的公寓阳台跳下，被警察的密集火力击毙。
当局说，默拉死前承认在图卢兹地区的一系列枪击事件中打死了三名儿童、三名士兵和一名犹太教拉比。警方说，这名枪手声称与基地组织有关系，并且拍摄了自己行凶的过程。
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says police have detained 19 people in a crackdown on suspected Islamist extremists across the country.
Mr. Sarkozy says firearms were seized during Friday's raids in the city of Toulouse and other locations. Earlier reports said 20 people were detained.
The raids come in the wake of a series of killings around the Toulouse area by radical Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah. He was buried in the city Thursday, despite objections from the mayor and after a rejection from his family's native Algeria.
Merah was killed in a barrage of police gunfire, as he leaped from the balcony of his apartment last Thursday, following a 32-hour stand off.
Authorities say before he died Merah admitted to killing three children, three soldiers and a rabbi. Police say the gunman claimed links to al-Qaida and filmed his attacks.
