French investigators were on Saturday probing a group of women arrested on suspicion of plotting new jihadist attacks, including an attempted car bomb near Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral.
An examining magistrate was being asked to place a suspect, named as 29-year-old Ornella G., under formal investigation over the would-be attack in the heart of historic Paris.
A woman linked to Ornella G. was also part of a suspected trio of women jihadists foiled by the authorities before they could carry out a fresh attack, investigators said.
Ornella G.’s fingerprints were found in a Peugeot car abandoned last Sunday a few hundred meters (yards) from Notre Dame with five gas cylinders and three bottles of diesel fuel inside, according to the probe.
Ornella G., who was on security service files for plans to get to Syria, was arrested in southern France on Tuesday with her partner, who was later released, investigators said.
Police on Thursday also arrested her alleged accomplice southeast of Paris — Ines Madani, 19, the daughter of the owner of the car. Madani also allegedly pledged an oath to Daesh.
The reason why the car was not detonated are unclear.
Investigators said Ornella G. and Madani had apparently tried to set fire to the vehicle but “fled when they saw a man they believed to be a plain-clothes policeman.”
Two other women, aged 23 and 39, were arrested with Madani.
The trio had been plotting another attack, and were looking at train stations in Paris and south of the Paris, as well as the police, as potential targets, an unofficial source said.
Source: Arab News
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