A week after a auto containing seven cylinders of gas was discovered near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, French authorities have said they have discovered another vehicle filled with gas canisters in Marseilles.
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The suspect, identified as Ornella G., was presented to antiterrorism judges Saturday, with the intention of filing preliminary charges and placing her under formal investigation, the prosecutor’s office said.
The vehicle contained five gas cylinders, three bottles of diesel and a lit cigarette.
Police found a handwritten pledge of allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi inside the purse of Ines Madani.
French police have arrested a 16-year-old at his Paris home to abort what they feared was a planned weekend attack, as the prime minister warned some 15,000 people in the country could be in the process of being radicalized.
Sarah H. was engaged to Larossi Abballa, who killed two police officials in Magnanville in June and filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid.
“The young women were remotely controlled by individuals located in Syria within the ranks of the terrorist organization Daesh”, Molins said, referring to Islamic State.
One of the women, arrested on Thursday stabbed a police officer during her arrest on Thursday before being shot and wounded. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, Sarkozy said France needed to create “a special anti-terrorist court” and place French citizens suspected of having militant links in preventative detention in order to boost security.
They were guided by the IS in Syria, anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins said on Friday.
The minister did not give further details about the arrests.
Security is one of the hot issues in early campaigning for next year’s presidential elections.
ISIL claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people and also claimed that the truck driver who crushed 86 people to death in Nice in July was one of the group’s “soldiers”.
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“We are involved in an extremely intense, round-the-clock mission to protect the French public, and we are getting results”, Cazeneuve said.
