[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A ’fanatical and radicalised’ female terrorist suspect was bumped off by French police tonight after stabbing an officer during a police special forces raid. She was said to be planning an ’imminent attack’ before being shot in the head in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, in the Essonne department, south of Gay Paree. As she was rushed to hospital with potentially life-threatening wounds, two women accomplices were also locked awayYou have the right to remain silent...
.All were also linked to a car filled with gas canisters that was found close to Notre Dame Cathedral at the weekend. The Peugeot 607 with on number plates was left just across the River Seine from the ancient place of worship ‐ prompting fears of a terrorist attack. Tonight’s drama unfolded soon after 8pm as an elite Raid special forces unit moved into an address at Boussy-Saint-Antoine.
As they approached the women, one is said to have drawn a knife and maimed an officer working for the DGSE, in the shoulder. In a briefing afterwards, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: ’These three young, radicalised women were preparing an imminent and violent attack.’ The women aged 19, 23, and 39 were not identified by Mr Cazenueve, who said one was in hospital suffering from bullet wounds to the head.
Another radicalised Frenchwoman who wanted to run away and join Isis is in jug in Gay Paree after abandoning the car packed with gas cylinders close to Notre Dame. The suspect ‐ who is 29 and on a terror watchlist ‐ disappeared with her boyfriend, aged 34, early on Sunday morning. This was when the Peugeot was found with its lights flashing in a no-parking zone, across the River Seine from the cathedral, at 7.30am. There were seven gas canisters inside ‐ promoting fears of a terrorist attack on the ancient place of worship, which is high on a list of Isis targets.
’It may have been that they were on a test run,’ said a source close to the case, who added: ’There was nobody in the car, and the cannisters were not connected to any detonator or explosives.’ He said six full cannisters were in the boot of the Peugeot, and an empty one was on the back seat. Documents written in Arabic were also found in the car. The Peugeot had no number plate, but forensics experts managed to find DNA belonging to the couple, who were both well known to police. The couple were finally caught close to the southern city of Orange on Tuesday, while ’trying to escape to Spain,’ said a source close to the case.
They were interviewed at length by police in Avignon, before being transferred to Gay Paree in an armed convoy. Investigators have spent the past four days raiding the homes of anybody who might be linked to them. Six people were originally arrested, with the woman and her boyfriend remaining in jug in a high-security cop shoppe. The woman now lives in the Loiret department, south of Gay Paree, but she originally comes from the northern Gay Paree of suburbs, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. Her father has told officers that she was ’radicalised as a teenager’, and had expressed the wish to go and fight with Isis abroad. The suspect had told her parents that she was ’going away with a friend’ at the weekend, and that her parents had not heard from her since. Islamic State
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has threatened Notre Dame as part of its violent campaign against La Belle France for sending warplanes to bomb Isis bases in countries including Syria and Iraq.
| Update from The Times of Israel at 3:10 a.m. ET: |
Four people — two brothers and their girlfriends — were already in custody over the discovery. A 34-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, the first couple arrested, have been held since Tuesday and are known to the security services for links to radical Islamists. The man’s brother and his girlfriend, both aged 26, were arrested late Wednesday, the source said.
Police said earlier they were searching for the two daughters of the owner of the grey Peugeot 607 that was found abandoned on Sunday near Notre Dame cathedral, which draws millions of visitors every year.
| Separately, Breitbart updates the report from yesterday about a knife attack on police in Mollenbeek: |
The suspect in the attack is described by police as a 24-year-old illegal migrant from Morocco. Authorities say the man is known to them due to the fact he has been repeatedly told to leave Belgium by authorities.