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Ukraine Arrests Frenchman for Plotting Attacks on Euro 2016


Ukraine’s intelligence agency SBU said on Monday it has thwarted a plot to attack soccer’s European Championships in France by arresting a Frenchman who wanted to cross from Ukraine into the European Union armed to the teeth.

”The Ukrainian Security Service has managed to foil a series of 15 terrorist attacks which were planned to target France before and during the European football championships,” Vasyl Hrytsak, the security agency’s chief, told national television.

The SBU said it had followed the man since December and allowed him to purchase five machine guns, two rocket propelled grenades and other weapons before he was arrested …read more

Source: Voice of America

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