Earlier this week, three radicalized women were arrested in connection to a vehicle containing gas canisters that was found a week ago near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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The three other women are still being questioned after a auto containing gas cylinders was found in the French capital on Sunday.
French police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of planning an attack, investigators said Sunday, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that the country faced a threat from 15,000 homegrown radicals.
Molins said the woman was engaged to Larossi Abballa, who killed two police officials in Magnanville in June and filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid. He said police opened fire aftr the policeman was stabbed, injuring one of the women.
A third woman, Amel S, 39, who lived at the house, also was arrested along with her daughter, who was about to turn 16 and was potentially implicated in the “terrorist project”, according to the prosecutor.
Three women were arrested and it was reported that they were allegedly planning to blow up the busy Gare du Lyon train station in Paris.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said the woman, identified as Ornella G., was appearing before an anti-terrorism judge on Saturday.
Another woman, Sarah H, 23, attacked and wounded a plain clothes officer with a kitchen knife through the open window of his vehicle.
“If at first it appeared that women were confined to family and domestic chores by the Daesh terrorist organization, it must be noted that this view is now completely outdated”, Molins said.
Sarkozy’s comments come after French President Francois Hollande, a Socialist, took a swipe at his opponents this week, saying their hardline reactions to a wave of militant attacks demonstrated an intent to destroy France’s social model.
The minister did not give further details about the arrests.
Security is one of the hot issues in early campaigning for next year’s presidential elections.
“We are involved in an extremely intense, round-the-clock mission to protect the French public, and we are getting results”, Cazeneuve said.
France is in a state of emergency after three attacks this year, including the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people.
The latest was a Russian national, Mansur Kudusov, who was extradited to Russia on Friday after being jailed for breaching house arrest.
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Valls said authorities were monitoring around 15,000 people in France who they believe are in the process of radicalization.
