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France’s Sarkozy outlines measures to get tough on militants
Islamic State militants in Syria directed a group of women who gathered materials for a vehicle bomb left near Notre Dame Cathedral, French prosecutors said Friday, highlighting the group’s apparent ability to command homegrown terror cells from afar.
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Ornella G.is among several women arrested in recent days in what authorities say is a female terror network with alleged ties to other attacks in France inspired by the so-called “Islamic State” (IS).
According to investigators, her fingerprints were found in the Peugeot auto which was discovered abandoned last Sunday a few hundred metres (yards) from Notre Dame with five gas cylinders and three bottles of diesel fuel inside.
According to anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins, the women aged 39, 23 and 19 were given the task of carrying deadly ideology of ISIS and were given direction by ISIS members.
Three women were arrested in connection with the Paris incident.
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In July, 86 people were killed when a truck ploughed into a Bastille Day crowd in the southern resort of Nice with IS saying it was driven by one of its followers.
When it was found in the early hours of Sunday morning the auto had no registration plates and was left with its hazard lights flashing.
Ornella G. was remanded in custody after being charged with association with a terrorist group and attempted murder by an organised group, prosecutors said.
The hunt to find the women, who authorities said were guided from Syria, had been “a race against time” before they could strike again, said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, overseeing the fight against militant extremists who have killed more than 200 people in France in the past 10 months.
On Thursday, the woman identified as Sarah H., 23, stabbed a policeman in the shoulder who had been keeping watch on them from an unmarked vehicle near the apartment, the investigator said.
Molins said the use of a terrorist cell made up nearly entirely of young women represented a chilling turn in IS tactics, the New York Times reported.
She had sworn allegiance to IS in a letter found in her handbag.
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She was the fiancee of Larossi Abballa, a jihadist who knifed to death a senior policeman and his partner at their home in a Paris suburb in June before himself being shot dead. The note also stated that in answer to the call of the No. 2 IS leader, killed in August, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, “I attack you in your lands to mark your minds and terrorize you”, Molins said in an account of the arrests.