The women planned to target Gare de Lyon, a busy central Paris train station, according to the French Interior Ministry.
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Molins didn’t say when she was engaged to either man. Larossi Abballa, 25, was killed in a police raid in Magnanville after he pledged his allegiance to ISIS and killed a policeman and his partner in June.
The other was Adel Kermiche, who slit the throat of the Rev. Jacques Hamel, 85, during morning Mass in July in the northwestern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, he added.
Later on Thursday, police arrested the boyfriend of one of the women, AFP reported, citing police sources.
The three women arrested over a thwarted attack on Thursday were guided by Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria, Francois Molins said on Friday.
“If at first it seemed that women were confined to carrying out family and domestic tasks by the terrorist organisation, we are now forced to see that vision is largely outdated”, he said.
Footage recorded by a neighbor showed a woman wearing an Islamic veil being carried away by police as she cries out “Allahu Akbar” or “God is Great” in Arabic.
The auto also contained three jerry cans of diesel and was found with its hazard lights on.
Ines Madani was one of five sisters and had already tried to leave for Syria before, Molins said.
The auto had no plates and was left with indicators flashing in a narrow alley. They found a document in her purse pledging allegiance to IS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and proclaiming an attack on French soil.
Molins told reporters that investigators found traces of diesel fuel on a blanket and a cigarette in the trunk.
French police investigate an apartment in a residential building, during a police raid in Boussy-Saint-Antoine near Paris, France, September 9, 2016.
The 19-year-old woman is known to the police for attempting to leave for Syria.
One of the women – thought to be the teenager – stabbed a police officer during her arrest before being shot and wounded. The police opened fire and Madani was injured. The letter said that “I am attacking you in your lands in order to terrorize you”, he said. Isis propaganda was found on her computer at her home.
Three women were arrested last week in connection with the Paris incident. The official said Madani was hospitalized.
“These radicalized, fanatic women, aged 39, 23 and 19 years old, were likely preparing new violent actions, particularly imminent”, he said.
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The French government said it was a “race against time” to find the women before they could strike.
