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Senior French officer detained on charges of cooperating with foreign power (Surprise! It’s Russia!)
2020-08-31
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] French senior officer investigated over suspected security breach, armed forces minister says
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Sunday that a senior officer had been placed under investigation over a suspected breach of security.

According to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 radio, a French lieutenant colonel, based in Italia and stationed with NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
, is suspected of having transmitted sensitive documents to the Russian secret services.

Asked to comment on the report, Parly said the ministry had informed prosecutors about the case. She did not elaborate on what the officer was suspected of having done.

"We have taken all the necessary safeguard measures," she said.

According to Europe 1, the officer was detained by the French security agency when he was about to return to Italia and was remanded in jug at "La Santé" prison in Gay Paree.

Courtesy of Clem, Russia Today’s quietly triumphal version of the story adds:
The suspect is reportedly a man in his 50s who's been working at a NATO command center near Naples. He is said to have some "distant family roots" in Russia and is presumably fluent in Russian. The man reportedly came under suspicion after he was caught contacting a known "Russian spy" working for the military intelligence, which French media referred to by its Soviet-era abbreviation, the GRU.
Posted by:Fred

#4  I'm amazed betraying France is even illegal in France anymore.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick   2020-08-31 15:00  

#3  You have to wonder how much of this Euro crime is related to the Russian, or former Russian satellite mafia ?

Armed robbers take £8m after attack on security van in Lyon
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-31 03:06  

#2  Maybe that SF shitstain gave him up. Hopefully we're wrapping up the entire network.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2020-08-31 01:03  

#1  Methinks this may have occurred at Lago Patria outside of Naples at Joint Forces Command-Naples.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-31 00:07  

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