A cop has been knifed and a female terror suspect shot in the head during a raid over the discovery of a car filled with gas canisters
The injured woman was arrested with two others over an "imminent attack"
A "fanatical and radicalised" female terror suspect was shot in the head by French police after stabbing an officer during a violent stand-off over the Notre Dame car probe.
The 19-year-old woman was injured when another policeman opened fire after his colleague was stabbed during the operation to arrest her and two others over the discovery of a gas canister filled car.
French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the three women arrested - aged 39, 23 and 19 - "had been radicalised, were fanatics and were in all likelihood preparing an imminent, violent act".
The policeman and the injured suspect have been taken to hospital. His condition is not life threatening but the woman, named as Ines M, is critical and in intensive care.
The three women were detained in Boussy-Saint-Antoine on the outskirts of Paris.
The 19-year-old has been identified as the owner of the car.
The Peugeot 607 was found on Saturday with its hazard warning lights flashing and without number plates, police said.
One of the canisters, on the front passenger seat, was empty, and there were no detonating devices inside.
Tonight's drama unfolded after 8pm as elite special forces moved into an address in the French town.
As they approached the women, one is said to have drawn a knife and wounded an officer in the shoulder.
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She was rushed to hospital suffering from bullet wounds to the head.
Five explosions could be heard as police moved into the house where the three women were holed-up.
The car was loaded with seven gas cylinders - six of them full. There were documents with Arabic writing on also found the vehicle.
Earlier, police arrested two couples in connection with the discovery of the car.
A first couple, aged 34 and 29, were arrested on a motorway on Tuesday in southern France.
The Peugeot had no number plate, but forensics experts managed to find DNA belonging to the couple, who were both well known to police.
The couple were finally caught close to the southern city of Orange on Tuesday, while ‘trying to escape to Spain,’ said a source close to the case.
They were interviewed at length by police in Avignon, before being transferred to Paris in an armed convoy.
Investigators have spent the past four days raiding the homes of anybody who might be linked to them.
The arrests today take the number of people held in custody to seven.
In November, 130 people died in Paris in a series of terror attacks carried out by Islamic State.
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