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Paris ((CNN)) --Islamist group, whose members were targeted in a series of raids by the French police, the Director of the contest Toulouse, Gunma Mohammed Merah by Philippe Missamou said on Saturday.

Mohammed Achamlane Forsane Alizza group was arrested Friday, the alleged links with radical Islam among the people, more than 19 Missamou said.

After the Raids came in the week that killed seven people in the attacks in Merah, was shot dead in the southwestern city of Toulouse after a long siege.

The French media suggested Merah had developed contacts with pro-al-Qaida group, which is the cluster of Toulouse descendants.

Forsane Alizza, was to travel to Afghanistan to fight against the French nationals by encouraging non-contractual jihad in January.

Missamou, told CNN he was last spoken Achamlane on Monday.

Achamlane told him at this time, the Group had been in contact with Merah and that it had nothing to do with killings in Toulouse, Merah Missamou said.

Achamlane said the group does not support the use of armed combat, the attorney said.

The members of the group, expected to meet Missamou which he has represented since January, on Monday or Tuesday.

After they entered into service before the judge and either impose further studies with the charges or released, he said.

Ministry of the Interior on 19 people were arrested in the alleged Missamou contest are Forsane Alizza, saying, many are not members.

Friday's arrests took place in Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Lyon, and the Ile de France region around Paris, the Interior Ministry said.

Ministry of Justice, the media, the Office said "the police had plans to 19 arrests and, therefore, the arrests were made in the context of the Group of 19 Forsane Alizza."

Interior Minister Claude Gueant said that several firearms, including automatic weapons, rifles, four, five, and three Kalashnikovs, was found to be suspected of housing, as well as a bulletproof vest in searches.

Missamou, said he had argued that the weapons were found.

He also said he did not know whether the members of the group, the time from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Lawyer disputes the characterization, saying, the group, it will describe the injustice of the French State in the competition.

Its members claim that France does not recognize the country and passing through laws that will be applied to Muslims in France a multicultural, breeds and multi-religious nature, he said.

Police have investigated whether or not acted alone in planning his attack on Merah.

He has accused the three of the French pudotuksiin, the rabbi and three Jewish children, ages 4, 5 and 7 to the killings. The other was wounded in the shootings, two seriously.

He had told the police Merah has participated in al-Qaeda training camp at Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins.

But his uncle Jamal Azizi denied the statements of the French authorities that al-Qaeda sympathizer Merah was and that he traveled to Afghanistan, or Pakistan, train in the use of weapons.

Buried in the cemetery at the Toulouse again Thursday, Merah.

CNN's Anna Prichard contribute to this report.

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