They turned up unannounced at 7am this morning after a secret internal operation within the French tax authority, following a recent demand from the Finance Ministry that Google pays £1.2billion (e1.6bn) in back taxes.

Google recently paid a "voluntary" tax bill of £130m to HMRC in Britain.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-05/24/french-office-google-raided