Failed Paris Car Bomb Attack Guided From Syria, Prosecutor Says
- Three women arrested near Paris in relation to abandoned car
- Suspects aged 19, 23, and 39; youngest one stabbed policeman
Policemen look at a car near a building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of Paris, where suspects, said to have been planning new acts of violence, were arrested, on Sept. 8, 2016.
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The failed car bombing in Paris that led to the arrest of three women Thursday night was organized by Islamic State from Syria, the Paris prosecutor said at a press conference.
“The act shows that Daesh intends to use women as combatants,” Prosecutor Francois Molins said in a press conference in Paris, using the preferred French term for Islamic State. “If women in Daesh were initially limited to domestic chores, this image is now out-dated.”