Three people set themselves on fire to protest a French crackdown on the People's Mujahedeen, amid calls by Tehran for detained members of the Iranian armed opposition group to be extradited. Two Iranian women, one of whom was earlier reported dead, were in a critical condition, while hospital sources said a male protestor was seriously hurt. In London, an Iranian woman was admitted to hospital after she set fire to herself outside the French embassy, and a man was in serious condition after torching himself Tuesday. A fifth man in Switzerland failed to ignite his petrol-doused clothing. Paris police chief Jean-Paul Proust late Wednesday banned the People's Mujahedeen from holding any more rallies in Paris following the self-immolations. The self-immolation protests in Paris were carried out near the offices of the French counter-intelligence services (DST), where more than two dozen suspects were being questioned after being detained during Tuesday's raids. About 50 protestors marched outside the DST offices, pledging not to budge until Maryam Rajavi, the figurehead of the People's Mujahedeen seen as their future "president-elect", was released from custody. The activists, waving Iranian flags and pictures of Rajavi, expressed outrage over Tuesday's raids on its members, which saw more than 1,200 officers swoop in on 13 locations in the northwest Paris suburbs. Police initially detained more than 150 people -- 26 of whom were still being held -- and seized about eight million dollars (6.8 million euros) in cash, as well as sophisticated computer equipment. The People's Mujahedeen -- considered by the United States, the European Union and Iran to be a "terrorist" group -- issued a statement condemning the French police for using unwarranted force during the "unjustifiable and shameful" raids and called for the detainees to be freed. But in Tehran, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami demanded that those in French custody be extradited, saying they "should be tried where they committed their crimes, or at least where they committed most of their crimes." France "has respected its responsibilities as a member of the European Union which declared this group terrorist. This is what we have been expecting," Khatami said, urging the United States to take Paris's lead. French counter-espionage chief Pierre de Bousquet de Florian said the group posed a threat to France and was "thinking about committing attacks" against Iranian interests outside Iran, especially diplomatic missions in Europe. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy justified Tuesday's raids by claiming that the People's Mujahedeen was using France as a "rear base". French interior ministry officials said the group, deprived of support from Saddam Hussein following the US-led toppling of the Iraqi regime in April, had made the Auvers-sur-Oise compound its international base. Court officials said investigators were looking into the possibility that the group was involved in the "financing of terrorist activity". Police said 40 financial crime experts had been assigned to the case. But analysts and commentators questioned the specific timing of the raids, the first major French operation against the People's Mujahedeen despite the group's 20-year history in the country. The raids came as the Iranian government confronted anti-regime protests by reformers at home and demands from abroad to open up the country's nuclear program to international controls. Diplomats in Tehran said the French crackdown on the Mujahedeen could spur Tehran into making a reciprocal gesture. With a program that combines left-wing and Shiite ideology, the People's Mujahedeen took part in the 1979 revolution in Iran but the movement was suppressed in the years that followed and its members fled abroad. Under the leadership of Rajavi's husband Massoud, the military wing of the group took refuge in Iraq in 1986, from where it organized attacks inside Iran. **PHOTO CAPTION*** An Iranian runs on the road after setting himself on fire during a protest near the headquarters of the French counter intelligence agency, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 in Paris. (AP Photo/KR Images Presse, Nicolas Marques)