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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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.
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