The French media reported Saturday that a vehicle containing gas canisters was found outside a synagogue in the southern port city of Marseille.
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Molins said the foiled plot showed that while the group once confined women to domestic tasks, it now saw them as “fighters”.
Appearing on French television yesterday morning, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that around 15,000 people were known to police in France as having been radicalised, up from a previous estimate of 10,000.
Police shot and wounded Madani as they swooped on her and her accomplices aged 23 and 39 in a suburb south of Paris.
The prosecutor said there was evidence that attempts had been made to light the gas cylinders found in the vehicle near Notre Dame in the heart of Paris’ tourist district.
“This amounts to networks that have been dismantled and attacks that have been prevented”, Cazeneuve said on a trip to Chateauroux, central France.
Sarah H. had since become engaged to Adel Kermiche, one of two militants who killed an elderly priest in July near the northern city of Rouen and was subsequently slain by police.
When confronted, “one young woman pulled out a knife and stabbed a police officer at stomach level”, local resident Joachim Fortes Sanchez, 21, told AFP.
Molins said Friday the investigation of the aborted attack has led to the dismantling of a “terrorist commando of young women” aligned with the Islamic State group.
The judge charged Ornella G. with association with terrorists to commit attacks and attempted murder in an organized group linked to a terrorist enterprise and ordered her jailed, the prosecutor’s office said. A 16-year-old boy was also arrested and questioned at the weekend over links to the failed plot.
In the letter, she said she was answering the call of Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, according to Molins.
However, sources say he was planning an attack in a public place in the French capital.
The teenage boy had been placed under house arrest this summer due to France’s state of emergency, after a search of his home, the judicial official said.
IS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people and also claimed the truck driver who crushed 86 people to death in Nice in July as one of their “soldiers”.
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The area was evacuated after two gas canisters were found in the auto. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said it still was not clear why the auto was abandoned or what the alleged intentions were of those under arrest.
