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French police arrested two men and a woman yesterday in connection with deadly Islamist militant attacks on Paris last month and in January, judiciary officials said.
In a separate event that highlighted the knock-on impact of tensions over Islamist violence, a teacher who claimed to have been stabbed by a man on Monday acting in the name of Islamic State militants was hospitalized after admitting to police that he had invented the story, prosecutors said.
IS, which claimed responsibility for the November 13 attacks, has stated that teachers in France’s secular state-schooling system should be killed for promoting “the evils” of secular life, music and drawing.
France remains on top security alert since at least eight gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people at cafes, a concert hall and near a sports stadium in Paris on November 13 — the deadliest attack on French soil since World War II.
One of the two men arrested yesterday in Villiers-sur-Marne to the east of Paris was deemed a “peripheral” suspect in the investigation into the attacks, judiciary sources said.
Seven assailants died in that attack and an eighth in police raids days later, but police are still searching for another chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after escaping to Belgium from Paris.
Two men are already in custody, accused of providing accommodation to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader who was killed in a major police raid in northern Paris five days after the attacks.
Eight men have been arrested in Belgium, where the attacks are thought to have been organized, and one man has been detained in Turkey on suspicion of scouting the concert hall, bars and restaurants where the attacks took place.
Six counter-terrorism judges are overseeing the investigation — an unprecedented number for France.
But three of the nine attackers have yet to be identified, including two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France, who appear to have used fake passports to sneak into Europe posing as refugees.
The other unidentified man is thought to have taken part in the gun attacks on the terraces of restaurants and bistros and died alongside Abaaoud in the shootout with police on November 18.
Another man and a woman arrested by police yesterday were suspected of supplying arms to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four other people at the kosher store on the eastern edge of Paris last January, sources said.
That attack took place on the heels of another in which two Islamist militants killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which became a target after publishing mocking cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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