French police raid Paris suburb

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French police have held 15 people in raids near Paris where four policemen were attacked earlier in March.

More than 300 police took part in the dawn operation at a housing project in Grigny, south of the capital.

The raids followed the 2 March incident in the area in which the four policemen had suffered shotgun pellet wounds.

Last month, police arrested more than 30 people in Villiers-le-Bel, another Paris suburb, targeting the suspected ringleaders of riots last November.

The 2007 riots began in Paris's mainly immigrant suburbs after two teenagers died in a crash with a police car.

More than 100 policemen were injured at the time, some seriously.

The clashes were a bitter reminder of the nationwide riots of 2005, when France was forced to call a state of emergency after weeks of violence in its poor and mainly immigrant suburbs.