The three women were detained in Boussy-Saint-Antoine in a "veritable race against the clock," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters. "These radicalized, fanatic women, aged 39, 23 and 19 years old, were likely preparing new violent actions, particularly imminent," he said. Prosecutors opened a terrorist investigation after the car was found near the famous cathedral on Sunday morning. Earlier, the Paris prosecutor's office said that police arrested a couple - a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman - Wednesday in the Loiret region of France, south of Paris. The Notre Dame case has revived memories of bombings across Paris in the 1990s by Algerian extremists, several of which involved gas canisters filled with nails.

Source: Fox News September 08, 2016 20:54 UTC