4 held, 2 women sought over gas cylinders in Paris car
Source: AFP
French police were searching Thursday for two "radicalised" women linked to a car containing six gas cylinders found in central Paris, with four people already held as part of the investigation.
Two new suspects, aged around 20, were arrested late Wednesday in connection with the grey Peugeot 607 found abandoned at the weekend near Notre Dame cathedral, a major tourist draw.
Anti-terror investigators are probing the incident, which comes with France on high alert following a string of jihadist attacks, including last November's coordinated bloodshed in which Islamic State extremists killed 130 people.
Speaking on Thursday, President Francois Hollande referred to attack plots that been foiled "in recent days", without elaborating. A first couple, held since Tuesday, are known to the security services for links to radical Islamists.
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PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)I was gonna say that the French don't mess around with emission standards.
patsimp
(915 posts)its scary to think there are probably more murderers like these sickos out there.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)A policeman has been stabbed in France during an operation to arrest three women in connection with a car found with gas canisters near Notre Dame.
One of the women was injured when another policeman opened fire after his colleague was stabbed, said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
The policeman and the injured suspect have been taken to hospital.
The Peugeot 607 was found on Wednesday with its hazard warning lights flashing and without number plates, police said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37312538
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)PARIS (AP) A French security official says a 19-year-old woman linked to gas canisters found in an abandoned car near Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Security in train stations around Paris was visibly higher Friday as the investigation into the car widened.
The woman, Ines Madani, was injured in the leg and arrested after a standoff Thursday night with police in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of Paris.
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.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/785366b506c74f8bb1b74afff384e1cb/official-paris-gas-canisters-suspect-pledged-loyalty?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Three women arrested near Paris on Thursday night had been planning an attack on the Gare de Lyon, an official has said.
The women, aged 19, 23 and 39, were arrested in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, a small town 30km (19 miles) south-east of Paris, after they were linked to the discovery of a car packed with gas cylinders parked near Notre Dame cathedral last weekend.
The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the women were radicalised and fanaticised and believed to have been preparing new and imminent violent action. He said there had been a race against time involving a vast police and intelligence operation to stop them.
France is confronted with a terrorist threat of unprecedented scale, Cazeneuve said. The changing threat took different forms and was very hard to detect, he added, calling for the vigilance of all citizens. Speaking on Friday morning, an interior ministry official told Reuters: An alert has been issued to all stations, but they had planned to attack the Gare de Lyon on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/paris-women-arrested-had-planned-imminent-attack-gare-de-lyon-say-officials?CMP=twt_gu