An 18-year-old Chechen Muslim from Russia was arrested in southeast France, according to the Ministry’s press release, which stated this was the ‘first foiled attack’ on the Paris Games. The suspect has been indicted and imprisoned, according to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office.
Le Monde France is on its highest alert level for attacks ahead of the Paris Games, when around 10 million visitors and 10,000 athletes are expected. The sport is set to take place mostly in the capital, but other towns and cities around France will also host some disciplines as well as individual games.
The arrested Chechen was suspected of “actively preparing an attack against the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium [in Saint-Etienne] during the football games that will take place there,” the Interior Ministry said. “He intended to attack spectators but also security forces and die as a martyr,” the statement added. He was charged on Sunday with terrorist conspiracy and is in pre-trial detention, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said in a statement to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Several attacks in recent years in France have been perpetrated by radicalized young Muslims from the North Caucasus. In October 2020, another teenage Chechen Muslim extremist, who had come to France as a refugee, beheaded a teacher in a suburb northwest of Paris.
And last October, a 20-year-old Chechen Muslim who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State killed a teacher in the northern town of Arras. After the Arras attack, Darmanin called for a “specialized approach for young Muslim men from the Caucasus in the 16-25 age bracket.”
The police surely will be on the highest terror alert but it’s doubtful they will ever be enough to prevent it from happen.
Israel is sending 90 athletes to the Paris Olympics.
According to https://jewishinsider.com/2024/07/israel-olympics-france-athletes-security-shin-bet-miki-zohar/
“Every place where there are athletes, every single person representing Israel will have security,” said Eytan Ben David. Eytan Ben David, who previously headed the dignitary protection unit in the Shin Bet and has overseen security for previous Israeli Olympic delegations, told JI that this year’s team will be protected with the “highest level of security that exists.”
I’ve read that a lot of athletes aren’t going.
Because of terror threats?
Bonnie
If there’s a repeat of Munich 1972, the investigative agencies will come knocking at your door.
You called it first. Hah hah.
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Israel won’t allow that to happen again. Unlike many in this country, they do learn from the lessons of history.
As for the agencies, I’m small potatoes, not worth the time and effort.
Yes, that’s true. Israel will protect their athletes, and hopefully the entire Olympic village. They will keep an eye out on all Moslem participants and visitors.
Bonni: I don’t know why. I think it was Russian athletes I read about.
Ok.
Attempts are a certainty. Successful attempts, who knows?
Pretty good i would say then they have many high power supporters in our governments and many leftwing jerks want it and as of in our time they get what they want then our politics are on their side and not on ours.
Well said, I could not agree more, just like here in the U.K.
I would say quite high, after all the authorities have got to be lucky every time but the terrorists only need to be lucky once. The more attempts they have the more the chances of one of the attacks actually getting carried out.
Why do they let people that behead people live? Why do they let ISIS live? They should all be eliminated. If they did that, maybe they’d think twice about joining ISIS like that Bagam woman. She shouldn’t live either,
I count on it.