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French gas canister car arrests French policeman stabbed during gas canister car arrests
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Policeman stabbed in France during operation to arrest three women over car with gas canisters found near Notre Dame A policeman has been stabbed in France during an operation to arrest three women in connection with a car found with gas canisters near Notre Dame.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. One of the women was wounded when another policeman opened fire after the stabbing in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. Mr Cazeneuve said they appeared to have been preparing an immediate attack.
In November, 130 people died in Paris in a series of terror attacks carried out by so-called Islamic State (IS).
A state of emergency has been in place in France since then.
The Peugeot 607 was found on Wednesday on the Quai de Montebello, just metres from the cathedral, along a stretch of the Seine riverside.
The car had its hazard warning lights flashing and no number plates, police said.
Documents with writing in Arabic were also found in the car, police said.
One of the canisters, on the front passenger seat, was empty, and there were no detonating devices inside.
A man on the terrorism watch list was arrested on Wednesday as well as an associate of the car's owner, also known to police.
Mr Cazeneuve said the three women arrested on Thursday - aged 39, 23 and 19 - "had been radicalised, were fanatics and were in all likelihood preparing an imminent, violent act".