The arrest of the teenager on Saturday came two days after police moved in on what the Paris prosecutor says was a group of female “commandos” arrested after an aborted attack at Notre Dame Cathedral and another possible attack.
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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday the women were part of a cell directed by ISIS from Syria.
Another of the women, who was arrested with her partner on a motorway on Tuesday, Ornella G., was formally placed under investigation on Saturday in connection with the auto found just over a week ago near Notre Dame Cathedral.
In May, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal security agency, said he was confident ISIS would “reach the stage of vehicle bombs”.
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.
The trio have not yet been charged.
France is in a state of emergency after three attacks this year, including the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people.
Police suspect him of plotting “in response to calls from Syria to attack France”, the source added.
The boy, who was not identified, had been under house arrest since the coordinated November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people. The minister released a statement saying the women arrested were aged 39, 23, and 19, and were planning imminent attacks. “Where are the brothers?.She brandished a knife and she hit a policeman.Where are the men?”, referring to the arrest of a group of women on Thursday in relation to the railway station plot.
Sarah H. had since become engaged to Adel Kermiche, one of two jihadists who killed an elderly priest in July near the northern city of Rouen and was subsequently killed by police.
“If at first it appeared that women were confined to family and domestic chores by the Daesh terrorist organization, it must be noted that this view is now completely outdated”, Molins said.
In a country that has seen more than 230 people die in terrorist attacks since January 2015, Valls said: “There will be more attacks”.
“We are involved in an extremely intense, round-the-clock mission to protect the French public, and we are getting results”, Cazeneuve said.
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A man arrested Thursday also had ties to the dead jihadi, Larossi Abballa, who filmed himself on Facebook Live pledging allegiance to Islamic State as he sat in the home of the dead officials, one of the officials said.
