The man’s brother is himself in custody over suspected links to Larossi Abballa, a jihadist who killed a police officer and his girlfriend in a Paris suburb in June, a source said. He filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid.
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And officials have said for months that those being recruited by Islamic State in France are increasingly adolescent girls and young women.
It said it has opened an investigation under suspicion of a “criminal terrorist association”. He said that if women had previously been “confined to family and domestic tasks” by the militant group, that vision was now strongly out of date. They have always watched women, but now they really have to look at them as operatives in attacks as well.
A bomb squad with dogs and a scanner was deployed when a gas canister with a timer but no detonator was found outside a police station on Friday morning in La Plaine Saint Denis, just north of Paris, and one kilometre from the Stade de France in Saint Denis, police said. The Peugeot 607 – its hazard lights flashing – contained gas canisters, a blanket with traces of fuel, and a burned-out cigarette. Kermiche tried twice to travel to Syria in 2015.
The auto was discovered with its hazard lights flashing.
Police were alerted to the presence of the auto, which was parked illegally, by an employee of a nearby bar who spotted the gas cylinder on a seat along with documents with Arabic writing, said France’s BFMTV.
Officials told the Reuters news agency that the 19-year-old woman was known to police for wanting to go to Syria.
The developments came after the owner of the abandoned vehicle was identified by the insurance badge that remained on the car’s windscreen even though the number plates had been removed.
Three women were arrested last week in connection with the Paris incident.
RTL also reported that the women allegedly wanted to avenge the death of Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, a top IS figure who was killed in an airstrike carried out by a Russian Su-34 bomber on August 30. She was then shot and wounded by another police officer.
The security official, who was not authorized to be publicly identified, said French authorities have a document in which Madani declares allegiance to the extremist group. Isis propaganda was found on her computer at her home.
That much emerges clearly from Thursday’s arrest of three heavily radicalised women plotting an attack in central Paris using a auto laden with gas cylinders. The changing threat took different forms and was very hard to detect, he added, calling for the “vigilance of all citizens”.
President Francois Hollande, speaking on a visit to Athens, said: “A group has been destroyed” but warned: “There are others”. “Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late”.
This was the case with the Charlie Hebdo attack, the Bataclan and in Bombay when the Chabad house was attacked at the far end of town from where the main attacks at the Train station and hotel Taj Mahal took place.
Three other women were detained on Thursday.
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Security in the French capital was visibly higher this week as the investigation into the failed railway station attack widened.
