French police shot female terror suspect, arrests two others

France: A female terror suspect has been shot in the head after stabbing a police officer during a special forces raid overnight in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, in the Essonne department, south of Paris. According to French police, the woman was shot in connection with last weekend’s discovery of an abandoned car containing six gas cylinders near the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Police said the woman, along with two other women, between the age of 19 and 39, were organizing a new acts of violence.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the women were “radicalised fanatics” who were preparing “new violent and imminent actions.”

The woman who was shot by the police was the daughter of the car’s owner and the trio were seized together in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of Paris.

Reports says a police officer also suffered a knife wound during the arrest.