( CNN ) -- The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it has deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more in a crackdown after the killing of seven people by a suspected Islamic extremist . A statement by Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the moves were part of `` an acceleration of the deportation procedures of foreign Islamic radicals . '' An Islamic militant from Algeria who was involved in 1994 attacks in Marrakech , Morocco , was sent to his home country Monday , the statement said . In addition , a Malian imam was returned to his home country for sermons that promoted anti-Semitism and rejection of the West , it said . Deportation proceedings also have started or are planned against three others : an imam of Saudi nationality , a militant Islamist from Tunisia and an imam from Turkey , the statement said . It cited provisions in the law governing aliens and political asylum , saying the statutes `` allow this type of decision with regards the 'urgent need for state security or public safety ' or 'conduct likely to harm the fundamental interests of the state . ' `` According to the statement , other expulsions will occur soon . Last week , French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio that 19 people had been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists . The raids came a week after gunman Mohammed Merah , who killed seven people , was shot dead after a long siege in the southwestern city of Toulouse . Sarkozy , who is running for re-election , said the raids were intended to `` deny the entry of certain people to France '' who did not share the country 's values . `` It 's not just linked to Toulouse . It 's all over the country . It 's in connection with a form of radical Islam , and it 's in agreement with the law , '' he said . Sarkozy suggested then that more raids would follow , saying , `` There will be other operations that will continue and that will allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people who have no reason to be here . '' Merah was blamed for the killings of three French paratroopers , a rabbi and three Jewish children ages 4 , 5 and 7 . Two other people were seriously wounded in the shootings . Merah told police he had attended an al Qaeda training camp while visiting Afghanistan and Pakistan , according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins . But his uncle , Jamal Azizi , denied statements by French authorities that Merah was an al Qaeda sympathizer and that he had traveled to Afghanistan or Pakistan to train to use arms . CNN 's Tom Cohen and Alex Felton contributed to this report .
An Islamic militant and imam are sent back to their home countries . Deportation proceedings have started or will be launched against seven others . President Nicolas Sarkozy said 7 a crackdown on Islamic militants had started . The crackdown follows the killing of three people by a suspected Malian militant .