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French police investigate near Paris on Thursday after an abandoned car packed with gas cylinders was found near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral. A teenaged boy was arrested Sunday for planning 'violent action' in Paris, marking the second terrorist threat to the city in a week. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Paris suspected of preparing imminent "violent action," two judicial sources said, the second alleged plot with links to Islamic State discovered in France this week.
Last Sunday, a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral and jerry cans of diesel, leading to the discovery of a plot to attack a Paris railway station under the direction of Islamic State.
Seven people, including four women, were arrested.
The boy had been under house arrest since France declared a state emergency after Nov. 13 attacks in Paris in which Islamic State militants killed 130 people, two sources said on condition of anonymity.
They did not say why he was under house arrest.
His arrest on Saturday came as he was planning an attack in a public place in the French capital, one of the sources said.
The second source said the boy had been in contact with suspected French Islamist militant Rashid Kassim and that Kassim also guided one of the women arrested last week in the plot to attack a train station in Paris.
'Women, sisters, go on, attack'
French newspaper Le Monde reported that Kassim is in Syria.
He has used Telegram, the messaging service, to call for more attacks in France.
"Women, sisters, go on, attack. Where are the brothers?...She brandished a knife and she hit a policeman...Where are the men?" Le Monde quoted a message of Kassim on Telegram.
A French police officer patrols in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Friday. A woman, one of seven people arrested, stabbed a police officer during her arrest on Thursday before being shot and wounded. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)
One of the women, arrested on Thursday stabbed a police officer during her arrest on Thursday before being shot and wounded.
One of the women, who was arrested with her partner on a motorway on Tuesday , Ornella G., was formally placed under investigation on Saturday in connection with the car found last Sunday near Notre Dame cathedral.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/teen-boy-arrested-paris-attack-1.3757453