Six women close to Mohamed Merah's family were arrested on Tuesday (October 4th) in Toulouse as part of an investigation by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat), which suspects them of having stayed in Syria in 2013 and 2014, said a judicial source, confirming information from Europe 1.
Five of them were arrested at their homes in the Toulouse region and a sixth presented herself to the police station, according to a source familiar with the matter.