Some 72 airport staff, most of them Muslims, have been stripped of their security clearance at France's main airport, Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
"Seventy-two employees had their badges withdrawn [because] they are linked to fundamentalist movements with potentially terrorist aims," Jacques Lebrot, the deputy prefect in charge of the airport, told the AFP news agency.
The "great majority" were linked to an "Islamist movement", he said.
Badges were also taken away from "just under a dozen" people suspected of links to Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels as well as from one Sikh worker.
