French spokesman now making a statement

French government spokesman confirms police raid at Saint Denis is over. Armed police have been on the scene since 04:30 local time (03:30 GMT). I posted on the events here

In other news the BBC report "Turkish police saying they have detained eight Islamic State suspects who they claim were bound for Germany, BBC Monitoring reports.

The Istanbul counter-terrorism squad says eight Moroccans were detained at the city's airport after they arrived from Casablanca and their story of being tourists with an Istanbul hotel booking did not check out.

A document found on one of the suspects reportedly shows a planned route to Germany through the Turkish city of Izmir, Greece, Serbia and Hungary, Anatolia news agency says."

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