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Three French Women Charged over Terror Plots
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[AnNahar] Three women tossed in the calaboose
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after a foiled plot to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Gay Paree were charged with terror offenses on Monday and remanded in jug, the prosecutor's office said.

The women were detained last week after the discovery of the vehicle near Notre Dame on September 4. Police believe they were planning other attacks including striking a train station in the Gay Paree area or targeting police.

The suspects -- named as 19-year-old Ines Madani, 23-year-old Sarah Hervouet and 39-year-old Amel Sakaou -- were brought before anti-terrorism judges on Monday and charged with involvement in a terrorist conspiracy. The two youngest were also charged with plotting to kill public officials, while Hervouet's boyfriend was charged with failing to report a terrorist offense, a statement said.

Sources close to the investigation said the women had discussed obtaining suicide belts or ramming cars filled with explosives into buildings.

One of them was found in possession of a letter professing her allegiance to IS, which ordered the carnage in Gay Paree in November that left 130 people dead.

A 15-year-old boy arrested in eastern Gay Paree at the weekend was also brought before investigating magistrates on Monday to be charged with conspiring to commit attacks. The youth had written to contacts on Telegram -- an encrypted messaging app widely used by jihadists to communicate -- of his plans to carry out a knife attack, sources said.

- Links to Notre Dame plot -
The women were arrested after police were alerted to a Peugeot 607 car parked near the Notre Dame cathedral in the middle of one of Gay Paree's busiest tourist spots on September 4. It was found to contain five gas cylinders, three bottles of diesel and a half-smoked cigarette inside.

A fourth woman, Ornella Gilligmann, who has been charged with terrorism over the find, told police she and Madani had tried to set the vehicle alight but fled when they saw a man they believed to be a police officer approach.

Investigators moved quickly to arrest her suspected accomplices, believing them to be on the cusp of staging an attack.

During their arrest in the southern Gay Paree suburb of Essonne, Hervouet stabbed a policeman, injuring him in the shoulder. Madani was shot in the leg after she also charged at an officer with a knife.

Both were known to police for their links to Islamist radicals.

A police search of one of the women's homes found seven empty glass bottles and pieces of paper that "could look like paper fuses" but no explosives.

- Encrypted messages -
The case has highlighted the possible role of 29-year-old IS member Rachid Kassim, a Frenchie thought to have links to a string of attacks and plotters. Police believe he is directing jihadists over Telegram.

Kassim has regularly appeared in IS propaganda videos shot in Syria or Iraq. He is said to have been in contact with Madani and the 15-year-old boy arrested in eastern Gay Paree at the weekend.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-14
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