Paris, March 31 (UPI)--the lawyer of the leader of an Islamic group arrested by French authorities said the Group has no connection with the Toulouse shooter who killed seven people.
Lawyer Philippe Missamou, who Forsane Alizza leader Mohammed Achamlane, one of the 19 people arrested Friday for alleged links to radical Islam represents, said Saturday denied that the Group Achamlane had something to do with the murders, CNN reported Muhammad Merah.
Merah killed the week before a Rabbi, the spiritual of two children and another school girl outside a Jewish school last week and three paratroopers of North African descent.
Merah reportedly admitted to the shooting during a two-day standoff with police at his apartment in Toulouse before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
CNN said French media reports have suggested that Merah Forsane Alizza, who had links to followers in Toulouse.
French Ministry of Home Affairs said "19 arrests were made in connection with the Group Forsane Alizza" Friday in Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Lyon and the Ile de France region, around Paris.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant said five rifles, four automatic weapons, three Kalashnikov rifles and a bulletproof vest were found in searches of the suspects ' houses.
Forsane Alizza Missamou said that achamlane said that did not support the armed struggle. The lawyer said that the Group was not dangerous but worked on battle injustice against Muslims in France.
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