The 29-year-old is accused of attempted murder and trying to carry out a terrorist act.
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The police suspect him of plotting “to attack France in response to calls from Syria”, one of the sources said.
The man and woman arrested in a highway rest area near the southern town of Orange on Tuesday already were known by French security services for their alleged links with “radical Islamism”, prosecutors said.
A vehicle laden with gas cylinders found abandoned near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Sunday belonged to Madani’s father and the keys were found in her possession.
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.
Valls said almost 15,000 people in France are being tracked because they are suspected of being in the process of radicalisation, while 1350 are under investigation – 293 of them for alleged links with a terrorism network.
“There’s a group that has been annihilated, but there are others”, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.
The woman, Ines Madani, was injured in the leg and arrested after a standoff Thursday night with police in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of Paris.
Police suspected Madani of conspiring to fight for ISIS in Syria prior to the arrest. Kermiche and another attacker were shot dead by police.
The Interior Ministry said the intended target had been Gare de Lyon, a mainline train station in central Paris, and that all stations had been put on alert.
Mr Molins said the investigation of the aborted attack had led to the dismantling of a “terrorist commando of young women” aligned with the Islamic State group.
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. Another of the women had been engaged to the extremist who killed two French police officials earlier this year before he was shot to death, two officials said.
There were seven gas canisters inside the Peugeot, and well as three containers full of petrol, which might have been used to set the auto on fire. Other officials said it was the teenager who attacked the officer.
“We are involved in an extremely intense, round-the-clock mission to protect the French public, and we are getting results”, Cazeneuve said. 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.
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The minor was arrested in the 12th district of Paris and was being questioned by the General Directorate of Internal Security, the source said.
