It has been revealed that one of the three women arrested in direct connection to Wednesday’s thwarted terrorist attack in Paris has been engaged to two French extremists, one of whom helped carry out the brutal murder of Jacques Hamel, the priest whose throat was cut by ISIS militants after they stormed a church in Rouen, Normandy near the end of July.
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One of three women arrested over a failed Islamist attack in Paris had been “promised as a bride” to two men behind attacks on police officers and a priest earlier this year, the Paris prosecutor says.
The woman’s current fiance was arrested on Thursday, Mr Molins said.
The teen, Ines Madani, stabbed a police officer with a knife and was shot in the leg on Thursday evening in a raid south of Paris, police said.
Clear links have also emerged between the women arrested and jihadist attacks in France this summer.
The three women were being tracked after a vehicle loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral on September 3.
The prosecutor further stated that individuals from so-called Islamic State in Syria had been directing the women.
Another official, who also can not be identified when speaking about the investigation, said Madani had pulled a knife during the raid outside a small apartment building near the Boussy-Saint-Antoine train station.
Identified as Sarah H, the 23-year-old had been due to marry Larossi Abballa, 25, who killed a policeman and his partner before being killed in Magnanville, 20 miles west of Paris, in June.
Police said they found seven gas cylinders and three jerry cans of diesel but no detonators in the abandoned Peugeot 607.
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A screenshot from a bystander’s cell phone showed a veiled woman being taken away by police while yelling “Allahu Akbar”. That man was also connected to the Abballa attack, according to Molins, who identified him as the brother of a friend of the police killer. And officials have said for months that those being recruited by Islamic State in France are increasingly adolescent girls and young women. He goes on to admit that although he is happy at this particular group being “annihilated”, he acknowledges there are many others and the government’s work is in no way done yet. “Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late”.
