2024-06-02 12:50:05
The French authorities introduced for the primary time this Friday that they thwarted a deliberate assault in opposition to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games and that they arrested a younger Chechen man allegedly concerned within the preparations for this “Islamist-inspired” motion.
The Ministry of the Inside highlighted in an announcement that that is the “first pissed off assault in opposition to the Olympic Video games”, which should host thousands and thousands of tourists between July 26 and August 11 in Paris, primarily, and different French cities.
The 18-year-old was arrested on Could 22 in Saint-Étienne, within the southeast of France, the place he was “actively making ready an assault in opposition to the Geoffroy Guichard stadium” which is because of host soccer matches throughout the Olympic occasion, the ministry stated. .
On Sunday, justice decreed preventive detention in opposition to him for planning “within the title of the jihadist ideology of [la organización] Islamic State”, “violent actions, particularly in opposition to concentrations of followers”, in keeping with the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s workplace PNAT.
“Seeing that the stadium was too protected,” he deliberate to “assault the spectators exterior, close to the cafes,” and in his interrogations he defined that his goal was to “die like a martyr,” the minister defined in a press convention. of the Inside, Gérald Darmanin.
France is at most alert stage forward of the Olympic Video games, when round 10 million guests and 10,000 athletes are anticipated. Because the starting of the 12 months, three assaults have been thwarted within the nation.
The Organizing Committee of the Olympic Video games (OCOG) celebrated in an announcement the “effectiveness” of the safety forces and their “distinctive mobilization to ensure safety”, “primary precedence for Paris-2024.”
The town of Saint-Étienne should host six soccer matches throughout the Video games, together with the boys’s groups of the USA, Argentina, Morocco and Ukraine, in addition to the ladies’s groups of France.
– «Full mobilization» –
Since 2018, a number of circumstances dealt with by anti-terrorist courts in France concerned jihadists from the Russian republics of the North Caucasus, particularly Chechnya.
These circumstances embrace three assaults: a knife assault close to the Paris Opera in 2018 and the murders of professors Samuel Paty in 2020, within the Paris area, and Dominique Bernard on October 13, in Arras, within the north. from France.
Not like the latter, dedicated by a Russian recognized for radicalization, the Chechen arrested final week was not registered by the intelligence providers, in keeping with a police supply.
The Arras assault shocked France and served the Minister of the Inside, Gérald Darmanin, to toughen his immigration reform, adopted firstly of the 12 months, and to advocate a “specialised strategy” for younger folks from the Caucasus.
On Friday, the minister congratulated the intelligence providers for “their full mobilization and effectiveness within the battle in opposition to terrorism”, lower than two months earlier than the beginning of the Olympic Video games, which can have an necessary safety system.
The Olympic Video games, which focus world consideration, have been the scene of assaults prior to now, equivalent to in Munich-1972 or Atlanta-1996.
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