PARIS: A failed attack involving a car loaded with gas canisters near Notre Dame Cathedral was spearheaded by a group of women that included a 19-year-old whose written pledge of allegiance to the Daesh terror group was found by police, a security official said Friday.
The teen, Ines Madani, stabbed a police officer with a knife and was shot in the leg Thursday evening in a raid south of Paris, police said.
France’s interior minister described the pursuit as “a race against time” to find Madani and the two women with her before they struck. Another of the women had been engaged to the extremist who killed two French police officials earlier this year before he was shot to death, two officials said.
A man arrested Thursday also had ties to the dead terrorist, Larossi Abballa, who filmed himself on Facebook Live pledging allegiance to Daesh as he sat in the home of the couple he had killed, one of the officials said.
“There’s a group that has been annihilated, but there are others,” French President Francois Hollande said Friday. “Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late.”
The teen, Ines Madani, stabbed a police officer with a knife and was shot in the leg Thursday evening in a raid south of Paris, police said.
France’s interior minister described the pursuit as “a race against time” to find Madani and the two women with her before they struck. Another of the women had been engaged to the extremist who killed two French police officials earlier this year before he was shot to death, two officials said.
A man arrested Thursday also had ties to the dead terrorist, Larossi Abballa, who filmed himself on Facebook Live pledging allegiance to Daesh as he sat in the home of the couple he had killed, one of the officials said.
“There’s a group that has been annihilated, but there are others,” French President Francois Hollande said Friday. “Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late.”
