France arrests Russian-Ukrainian dual national with fake passports following explosion
June 6, 2024 2 Comments
AN INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN launched in France after a Ukrainian-born Russian national reportedly detonated explosives in a hotel room near Paris, suffering severe burns in the process. Sources from France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) said the incident occurred on Monday in a hotel in Roissy-en-France, a small bedroom community located 15 miles northeast of downtown Paris.
At the scene of the explosion police found a severely burned man, who was later identified as a 26-year-old from the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Most of the Donbas region has been under Russian military occupation since 2014. The man is reportedly a Russian speaker and holds both Ukrainian and Russian nationalities. He is currently in hospital receiving treatment for severe burns, and is formally under arrest.
The PNAT and the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), France’s counterterrorism and counterespionage agency, are investigating the suspect’s background and activities. According to media reports, the suspect’s hotel room contained “substances and materials intended for the manufacture of explosive devices”. A number of guns and forged passports were also found in the room.
As intelNews reported earlier this week, French police arrested a Bulgarian, a Ukrainian and a German national, who deposited five coffins, draped in French flags, at the base of the Eiffel Tower. The flags reportedly bore the inscription “Dead French Soldiers of Ukraine”. While the investigation is ongoing, French authorities are said to have classified the incident as a Russian psychological operation aimed at affecting French public opinion. It is not known whether the two cases are in any way connected.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 06 June 2024 | Permalink
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Never send a boy to do a man’s work. If he had done things properly, he would have set of explosives on the anniversary of D Day.
So, with the heightening of tensions over Russia’s Ukraine invasion leading to a Russian Team being banned from the 2024 Olympics [1] Russia may see value in disrupting the Paris Olympics as it is predominately a Western festival.
Russia may Not fear any international pariah blowback from such sabotage activities because Russia is already an international pariah.
Also at [1] “Russia has a decades-long history of undermining the Olympics…If they [Russia] cannot participate in or win the Games, then they seek to undercut, defame, and degrade the international competition in the minds of participants, spectators, and global audiences,” the report says. “The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Games held in Los Angeles and sought to influence other countries to do the same.”
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/russia-trying-scare-people-away-paris-olympics-report-says-rcna154924