French Police arrest three in connection with Paris Islamist attacks

Two men and one woman have been arrested by French police in connection with Islamist militant attacks in Paris last month and in January, judiciary officials announced.

France remains on high alert after 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 in what was the deadliest attack on the country since World War Two.

One of the two men arrested on Tuesday in Villiers-sur-Marne to the east of Paris was described as a "peripheral" suspect in the investigation, 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.

Another man and a woman arrested by police on Tuesday were suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and four other people at a kosher store on the eastern edge of Paris in January.

That attack came shortly after 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 Mohammad.