French authorities have charged a woman in relation to an alleged ISIS plot to attack this city’s famous Notre Dame Cathedral last week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Advertisement
A 16-year-old has been arrested in his home in Paris for allegedly planning to carry out an attack. She then pledged to marry Adel Kermiche, a 19-year-old who would die in a hail of police bullets in July after slaying a priest as he celebrated Mass in a small town in northern France, he said.
A jihadi woman, 29, who is on a terror watch list, masterminded the plan and disappeared with her boyfriend, aged 34, last Sunday morning.
The auto contained five gas cylinders, three bottles of diesel and a lit cigarette.
Three other women were detained on Thursday.
French officials said that three women arrested in connection with the Paris vehicle were “radicalised” and had planned to carry out an attack on a train station within days.
Molins said the investigation has led to the dismantling of a “terrorist commando of young women” aligned with the Islamic State group.
Valls said almost 15,000 people in France are being tracked because they are suspected of being in the process of radicalization, while 1,350 are under investigation for having links to terrorism. She was shot in the leg as she lunged at a police officer with a knife – after another woman, Sarah H., 23, attacked and wounded a plain clothes officer with a kitchen knife through the open window of his vehicle, Molins said on Friday. “Every day intelligence services, police foil attacks, dismantle networks, track terrorists”.
That woman, named as Sarah H., was due to marry Larossi Aballa, the man who killed two police officers in Magnanville, France, in June, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.
“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 on heightened alert after a series of Islamist attacks since January 2015 that have killed 238 people dead and made security a hot topic in campaigning for next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
The attack shocked France, coming less than 12 days after another Islamic State militant drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. It was not immediately clear why the teen was under house arrest.
Advertisement
Kudusov’s lawyer said he was a Chechen born in 1991 who had arrived in France as a child and had been placed under house arrest in 2012.
