The French police arrested five women in a raid on a house in the southern city of Béziers. They are suspected of planning a terrorist act in Montpellier, AFP and AP news agencies report.
The four adults and one minor were arrested at night at the insistence of the internal security service. According to the mayor, the investigation focused on one of the detainees. The 18-year-old woman probably wanted to commit an attack. According to unconfirmed reports, it was an attack on a church.
Her mother and three sisters were also present in the house at the time of the raid and were also arrested. The woman under investigation bragged to her neighbors about watching IS videos, the mayor told AP.
He says he does not know whether the family was known as radical Islamic. According to him, the neighbors are shocked. “They are afraid it will give a bad picture of the neighborhood and of the Muslim community.”
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