Meanwhile, prosecutors charged one of the women arrested over a foiled attack near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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The three other women were questioned after a vehicle filled with gas cylinders was found in the heart of Paris. Seven people, including four women, were arrested.
Her current fiance was arrested on Thursday, Molins said.
Ornella G. was remanded in custody after being charged with association with a terrorist group and attempted murder by an organised group, prosecutors said. She was known to intelligence agents as someone who was considering going to Syria.
The officials weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the arrest and asked not to be named.
Forensic investigators carry boxes out of the building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine south of Paris on September 8, 2016 where female suspects, said to have been planning new acts of violence, were arrested.
Another woman, identified as 19-year-old Ines Madani, reportedly declared her allegiance to IS in a letter. “She brandished a knife and she hit a policeman.Where are the men?”
“A terrorist cell made up of young women totally receptive to the deadly ideology of Daesh has been dismantled”, Molins said at a news conference, using a name for IS, which is also known by the acronyms of ISIS and ISIL.
Sarah H. had since become engaged to Adel Kermiche, one of two jihadists who killed an elderly priest in July near the northern city of Rouen and was subsequently killed by police. That followed two waves of attacks past year, notably the November 13 attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and stadium that left 130 people dead.
Security is a hot issue in early campaigning for next year’s presidential elections.
“Every Frenchman suspected of being linked to terrorism, because he regularly consults a jihadist website, or his behaviour shows signs of radicalisation or because is in close contact with radicalised people, must by preventively placed in a detention centre”, Sarkozy said in the interview.
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He added that 17 foreigners had been expelled this year for posing a “serious threat to public order”. She was arrested with her boyfriend in southern France Tuesday. The third woman, Amel S., 39, who lived at the house, also was arrested along with her daughter, about to turn 16 but potentially implicated in the “terrorist project”, according to the prosecutor.
