NEW : The raid targeted those supporting radical ideology ' , the interior minister says . Paris ( CNN ) -- Nineteen people have been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists , French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio Friday morning . Raids took place in Toulouse , Marseille , Nantes and Lyon and around Paris , police say . The operation targets those associated with ` ` a form of radical Islam , '' Sarkozy says . The trauma of the Toulouse raid for France was a bit like that for the U.S. , Sarkozy says .
NEW : The raid targeted those supporting radical ideology ' , the interior minister says . Raids took place in Toulouse , Marseille , Nantes and Lyon and around Paris , police say . The operation targets those associated with ` ` a form of radical Islam , '' Sarkozy says . The trauma of the Toulouse raid for France was a bit like that for the U.S. , Sarkozy says .