PARIS: Officers with France’s DCRI domestic intelligence agency on Tuesday arrested a Paris woman suspected of possible links to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

A source close to the investigation said the woman was arrested around 6:30 a.m. (0430 GMT) at her apartment in the working-class Belleville district of Paris.

The 21-year-old was arrested as part of an investigation by anti-terror officers into a case of “criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise,” the source said.

The source said the suspect had been a reader of Inspire — an online magazine published by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — and would be questioned about potential contacts with the group.

US media have quoted investigators saying Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two brothers believed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April, had read the magazine and may have followed its instructions on making pressure-cooker bombs.