French authorities have charged a woman in relation to an alleged ISIS plot to attack this city’s famous Notre Dame Cathedral last week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
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One of the women, identified as 23-year old Sarah H., had ties to French nationals who killed three people in recent terror attacks on French soil, Paris Prosecutor François Molins told a news conference.
A third woman, Amel S, 39, who lived at the house, also was arrested along with her daughter, who was about to turn 16 and was potentially implicated in the “terrorist project”, according to the prosecutor.
Ornella G and three other women were arrested after a vehicle containing five gas cylinders was found abandoned near the cathedral, a major tourist draw in central Paris.
The French prime minister issued a stark warning to the country on Sunday: France remains a target for terror and the country will suffer new attacks.
French police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of planning an attack, investigators said yesterday, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that the country faced a threat from 15,000 homegrown radicals.
In the pledge, Madani wrote that she was “answering the call of al-Adnani”, referring to Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior IS figure who had called on Muslims in the West to carry out attacks.
“You can say there are 15,000 people under scrutiny because they are in the process of radicalization”, Valls told French radio station Europe 1. “Where are the brothers?.She brandished a knife and she hit a policeman.Where are the men?” The official said the arrest isn’t linked to the arrests last week of four women and a man over aborted attacks.
Paris anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins said that when she was arrested, Madani had the keys to the vehicle in her bag, as well as a written pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
That followed two waves of attacks previous year, notably the November 13 attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and stadium that left 130 people dead.
Police officers patrol Nice, just hours after the deadly Bastille Day attack on the Promenade des Anglais.
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Valls said almost 15,000 people in France are being tracked because they are suspected of being in the process of radicalisation, while 1350 are under investigation – 293 of them for alleged links with a terrorism network.
