MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On September 4, a car with gas cylinders and bottles of diesel fuel was discovered near the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Police arrested several "radicalized" women, suspected of intention to explode the car, following an anti-terrorist operation in the country.
One of the detained women was charged with association with a terrorist group and attempted murder by an organized group. According to her testimony, the original plan was to park and explode the car at the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris, French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche reported.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday that the women were directed by Islamic State jihadist group, banned in many countries including Russia, which has called on its followers to attack France in revenge for airstrikes on the group's bases in Syria and Iraq.
