"We are cooperating with the authorities to answer their questions," said Al Verney, a spokesman for Google in Europe, in an email. "We comply fully with French law."

French investigators raided Google's Paris headquarters as part of a probe into tax evasion and money laundering, the financial prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain and Gwenaelle Barzic; Editing by James Regan)