| | | FEMME FATALES France’s first all-female ISIS terror cell held in Notre Dame ‘car bomb’ probe were plotting to blow up Paris train station THIS WEEK
Suspect named only as 'Ines M.' was allegedly carrying a 'last testament latter' pledging allegiance to the terror group
BY PETER ALLEN
9th September 2016, 10:40 am
A FRENCH teenager shot by cops was part of France’s first ever all-female ISIS terror cell which planned to attack a mainline railway station in Paris this week, it was alleged today.
Ines M. – whose full surname has not been revealed – was one of three women suspected of setting up a terror cell in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of the French capital.
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A woman with a hood covering her face is led from a building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine yesterday
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A man was seen being led along in cuffs by heavily armed, masked cops
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The iconic Notre Dame cathedral was one of the alleged targets of the terror plot
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A handcuffed man can also be seen being led away after last night’s raidThe flat they were sharing was raided on Thursday evening, when the 19-year-old is accused of wounding an officer with a kitchen knife.
He is said to have suffered ‘a light shoulder wound’, while his alleged attacker was shot repeatedly before being evacuated to hospital, where her condition was said to be stable.
Today it emerged that the female jihadi cell – the first of its kind in France – had supposedly wanted to attack the Gare du Lyon in Paris, which is one of the busiest rail stations in Europe.
Police and officers from the DGSI, France’s counter-terrorism intelligence agency, had been on the trail of the trio since Sunday, when a car full of gas canisters was found parked in Paris.
There were fears it was going to be used in a terrorist attack on the nearby Notre Dame Cathedral, which ISIS has regularly threatened.
The Peugeot 607 belonged to Ines M.’s father and sources close to the case said she and her accomplices, aged 23 and 39, had tried to set it on fire before fleeing.
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Explosions could be heard as cops opened fire on a 19-year-old terror suspect
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The policeman who was stabbed is not in a life threatening condition
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A Peugeot 607 was found with its lights flashing close to the landmark at the heart of the French capital
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Armed police took part in the raid in Boussy-Saint AntoineThe terror suspect was said to have been carrying a ‘last testament’ in which she swore allegiance to ISIS.
The letter also pledged to avenge the death of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the ‘ISIS spokesman’ killed by a US drone last month, it was said.
Phone tapping by the French authorities is thought to have revealed that the three women were planning to attack the Boussy-Saint-Antoine station, as well as targeting police officers.
The two older women were today being questioned in a high security police station in Paris, while Ines M. is expected to be interviewed when her health improves.
The news comes as a second car filled with gas canisters was found near the southern city of Montpellier, according to local paper Midi Libre. |
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