French police have arrested a second couple in connection with a auto found carrying seven gas cylinders near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, a judicial official said on Thursday.
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One police officer was injured after he was stabbed by one of the women during the arrests in Boussy Saint Antoine, to the south-east of Paris, added Mr Cazeneuve. Later that day, its owner went to the police to report that his is radicalized daughter was missing but without saying his vehicle had also disappeared, the prosecutor’s office said.
Three women who were likely planning an “imminent and violent” attack were arrested near Paris on Thursday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
A first couple, aged 34 and 29, were arrested on a motorway on Tuesday in southern France also in connection with the incident on Saturday and remain in custody.
A Reuters photographer later saw a hand-cuffed person being carried into a building in that town, in the area cordoned off by police, where house searches were being carried out.
The police briefly detained the auto owner and questioned him before releasing him, the prosecutor’s office said. The man’s daughter is still being sought for questioning by the police.
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Thousands of extra police and soldiers have been deployed to patrol sensitive sites since 130 people were killed by Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers in attacks on Paris last November.
