Woman held for failed Paris plot was engaged to extremists

A French police officer patrols in front of Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris, Friday Sept. 9, 2016. A failed attack involving a car loaded with gas canisters near Notre Dame Cathedral was spearheaded a group of women that included a 19-year-old whose written pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group was found by police, a security official said Friday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says one of the women detained in a police raid over a failed attack near Notre Dame Cathedral was engaged separately to two French extremists who themselves carried out deadly attacks this year.

Molins said the woman was engaged to Larossi Abballa, who killed two police officials in Magnanville in June and filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid.

He said she was also betrothed to Adel Kermiche, who slit the throat of an elderly French priest during morning Mass in July.

Her current fiance was arrested on Thursday, Molins said.