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French authorities have foiled an attack by three heavily radicalised women who were being guided by the Islamic State jihadist group from Syria, France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said Friday.
They are alleged to have been planning other “imminent and violent” attacks.
The boy had been under house arrest since France declared a state emergency after the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris in which IS group militants killed 130 people, two sources said on condition of anonymity.
Molins said the use of a terrorist cell made up nearly entirely of young women represented a chilling turn in IS tactics, the New York Times reported.
When it was found in the early hours of Sunday morning the auto had no registration plates and was left with its hazard lights flashing. No detonator or firing device was found.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that police had arrested 293 people this year for “links to terrorist networks”. Madani had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group in a letter found in her possession, according to a surce in the investigation.
The latest was a Russian national, Mansur Kudusov, who was expelled to Russia on Friday after being jailed for breaching house arrest, he said.
Teams of police then swooped on the women and in the struggle, Madani was shot in the thigh and the ankle. Sarah H. was subsequently to marry Mohamed Lamine A., known to be radicalized and the brother of a man jailed in the Magnanville murders.
One of them, identified as Sarah H, aged 23, had been engaged separately to two French jihadists, both now dead, who carried out attacks this year.
Madani’s father flagged his daughter to police Sunday, 14 hours after his auto was discovered. And officials have said for months that those being recruited by Islamic State in France are increasingly adolescent girls and young women.
“We have nearly 700 jihadists – French or French residents – fighting in Iraq and Syria, ” Valls said. Officials have said for months that adolescent girls and young women are increasingly being recruited by IS in France.
“Women, sisters, go on, attack”.
They are there “to ensure the longevity of the caliphate” by having children and providing moral support, Suc told France Info radio.
Security in train stations around Paris was visibly higher Friday as the investigation into the vehicle widened.
The women were arrested after police linked the vehicle at the scene to a house in the Essonne region south of Paris. French security services were also watching 15,000 people for radicalisation.
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There were seven gas canisters inside – prompting fears of a terrorist attack on the ancient place of worship, which is high on a list of ISIS targets. Elsewhere in Paris, police used explosives to disable an illegally parked motorcycle.
