French anti-terror police have arrested five people suspected of links with the Real IRA.
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The five, all French nationals, are said to be from the Brittany area. Some were detained in Brittany and the rest in Normandy in northern France, during raids early on Tuesday.
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They were held after police discovered a cache of weapons and ammunition outside the ferry port of Dieppe. They are suspected of involvement in a support network for the Irish group, police sources have told AFP. A small group of Breton nationalists has previously been found to be backing Spanish Basque militant group ETA, but it is not known whether the suspects in this case are Breton nationalists. |