French President Francois Hollande said Friday that authorities had information enabling them to foil the attack and thanked the security services for capturing the suspects.
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Her current fiancé, who has not been identified, was arrested on Thursday, Mr Molins said. No detonators were found.
Madani stabbed a police officer attempting to detain the trio on Thursday, being shot in the leg during the altercation in Boussy-Saint-Antoine.
The 15-year-old daughter of 39-year-old Amel S., the third alleged member of the cell, has also been arrested and three other people are in custody.
Adel Kermiche, 19, murdered Father Jacques Hamel, who was in his 80s, during a morning mass in July.
Teams of police then swooped on the women and in the struggle, Madani was shot in the thigh and the ankle.
In video filmed by a neighbour, a veiled woman, her face uncovered, is seen being carried away by police as she cries out “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the Greatest” in Arabic.
The news comes as a second vehicle filled with gas canisters was found near the southern city of Montpellier, according to local paper Midi Libre.
The 19-year-old woman has been named by French media as Ines Madani, born at Tremblay in the north-eastern Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Phone tapping by the French authorities is thought to have revealed that the three women were planning to attack the Boussy-Saint-Antoine station, as well as targeting police officers.
A police official said the government believes the potential terrorist was carrying out a “test run”.
“It’s at the same time rare and predictable”, Matthieu Suc, author of “Wives of Jihadis”, told France Info radio.
“The terrorist organisation uses not only women, but young women, who get to know them and develop their plot from a distance”, he said.
Security around Paris was visibly higher on Friday amid the investigation.
Today it emerged that the female jihadi cell – the first of its kind in France – had supposedly wanted to attack the Gare du Lyon in Paris, which is one of the busiest rail stations in Europe.
As well, the son of a gas delivery driver was detained briefly because he had canisters in his vehicle.
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A worker at a bar near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris’s central tourist area spotted a grey Peugeot 607 illegally parked in a side street on September 4. In 1995 when a gas canister with black powder, nails and bolts exploded on a rush-hour suburban commuter train at the St Michel station in an attack blamed on Algerian Islamist militants.
