Police officers patrol around Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on September 10, 2016, as part of the “operation sentinelle”.
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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.
The incident occurred days after an abandoned vehicle ith similar gas cylinders was found near the main cathedral of Paris.
Ornella G. was arrested on Tuesday near the city of Orange, in southern France, along with a companion who has since been released, the prosecutor’s office told CNN.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said at a news conference that the women were inspired by IS.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that there would be “new attacks” in France, but said that proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to boost security were not the right way to deal with the threats.
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.
Three heavily radicalised women were arrested after auto laden with gas cylinders was found abandoned near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on September 4, 2016.
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.
Sources did not reveal why the teenager was under house arrest.
Her fingerprints were found on the vehicle.
Molins said the investigation has led to the dismantling of a “terrorist commando of young women” aligned with the Islamic State group. “We have seen it again in the past few days, the past few hours, and even as we speak”. The prosecutor contended that the women were guided in their actions by IS members in Syria, “which shows this organization intends to make women combattants”.
“There will be new attacks, there will be innocent victims”, Valls was quoted by various media as saying in the interview. “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.
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After police shot and killed Abballa, she then was supposed to marry Adel Kermiche, who killed a priest in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, in July before he was killed by police.
