The itinerary of K., the Russian spy suspected of having wanted to “destabilize” the Paris Olympic Games

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2024-07-23 21:46:03

On May 8, 2024, K. must take a flight from Istanbul, Turkey, to Paris. Unless the FSB agent took too much. Denied boarding, he fell back on another flight that left Bulgaria. On the way, in a restaurant, this chef, trained in a Parisian school, called his boss in the Russian domestic intelligence services on the phone. In the conversation, the young man began to say, two months before the start of the Olympics (JO) in Paris, that ” The French are going to have an opening ceremony like there has never been before “. Thanks to security and foreign sources, Chance be able to retrace your journey.

21 st July, K. was arrested in his Paris home, specifically the Paris prosecutor’s office. Like many European intelligence services, a map of the Russian special forces group, operating under the command of the FSB, was found at his residence. Judgment information for ” intelligence with a foreign power with a view to instigating conflicts in France », a crime punishable by thirty years of criminal imprisonment, was opened on Tuesday July 23. K. was charged for this reason on the same day and was placed in custody before trial.

The 40-year-old claims to work as “ private chef » and publishes cooking lessons on social networks. He is followed by a few thousand followers, mainly Russian, who also found a participant in reality TV shows. According to the CV written about the Russian city and consulted about ChanceThe man was a partner in a Moscow investment fund before working in other business firms.

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At this time, K. moved to France and suddenly changed direction. Trained at a cooking school in Paris, the young man moved to Courchevel, a ski resort popular with Russian celebrities, in November 2011, for an internship at a Michelin-starred palace. He will be there until March 2012.

Crisis Russian interference

Six months later, on September 9, 2012, he received an email, advised by Chance, from Viviane H., the owner of a rented apartment in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, where she checked on him. In his answer, K. indicated that he returned to Moscow to work there as ” it works “inside” Russian government ”, without giving further details. A line that appears nowhere on your CV, consulted about Chance.

K.’s French travels came to an unexpected end at the end of July 2024. At 6 am, the BRI police, recruited by the DGSI, entered his apartment, rue Saint-Denis. According to information received by Chance, Their intervention takes place within the legal framework of “home visits” – a measure of control against profiles that are considered dangerous or suspicious. BRI found on the site “Documents of Diplomatic Privileges”.

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