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Europe
Ukraine arrests Frenchman for plotting attacks on Euro 2016
2016-06-07
[Iran Press TV] Ukraine's intelligence agency has tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
 a heavily-armed Frenchie allegedly accused of planning a string of terror attacks before and during the Euro 2016 football championship in La Belle France.

The Ukrainian state security service (SBU) made the announcement on Monday without identifying the name of the French man, saying he were tossed into the calaboose in late May on the border with Poland while carrying a huge arsenal of weapons for allegedly planning to perpetrate acts of terror in La Belle France.

Vasyl Grytsak, the SBU chief, said the 25-year-old man had made contact with gangs in Ukraine with the aim of buying weapons and explosives.

"He obtained five Kalashnikov rifles, more than 5,000 bullets, two anti-tank grenade launchers, 125 kilograms (275 pounds) of TNT, 100 detonators, 20 balaclavas and other things," he said.

Grytsak said the man had planned to conduct "15 terrorist strikes" on the eve and during the Euro soccer championship. The terrorist attacks included blowing up "a Moslem mosque, a Jewish synagogue, tax collection organizations, police patrol units and numerous other locations."
The Times of Israel adds:
The SBU said in a statement it had followed the man since December and allowed him to purchase the weapons before he was tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 on the border between Ukraine and Poland last month.

Gregoire Moutaux was driven by ultra-nationalist views, and was was a confirmed Islamophobe and anti-Semite.
The man, later named as Gregoire Moutaux, was driven by ultra-nationalist views and planned 15 attacks on bridges, railways and other pieces of infrastructure for Euro 2016 that is to be held in La Belle France, the SBU said.

Moutaux was a confirmed Islamophobe and anti-Semite, and specifically wanted to targets mosques, synagogues, and "large crowds building up around Euro 2016," said the SBU.
And from Ynet:
"The Frenchie spoke negatively about his government's actions, mass immigration, the spread of Islam and globalisation, and also talked about plans to carry out several terrorist attacks," Gritsak said at a briefing.
More from Al Ahram:
The man has not been formally identified by French authorities, but he is believed to work for an agricultural cooperative inseminating cows in eastern La Belle France.

The employer of a man named in some media as the suspect told AFP he was an "exemplary employee".

A farmer who knows the man, but asked not to be named, said he regularly visited Ukraine.

"He told us he had a girlfriend in Ukraine and that he went to her place from time to time," the farmer said.

Grytsak said Ukrainian authorities suspected the French national was trying to obtain arms from unidentified groups in war-scarred eastern Ukraine.

"The Frenchie offered people with whom he was in contact (in the east) several thousand euros in order to have a Ukrainian citizen help him carry the load into Europe," he said. "We therefore believe that the Russian security services may have set him up."

Ukraine's eastern war zone has been awash with arms since an insurgency against the pro-Western government in Kiev erupted in April 2014.
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