Suspected of violent action, a 26-year-old pro-Russian Ukrainian is currently in police custody in the DGSI premises in Paris. The man from Donbass was arrested in Roissy-en-France in a hotel near the airport, everything suggests that he was planning an attack. The chemicals and equipment found in the hotel room could make it possible to manufacture an explosive device capable of causing significant damage according to a judicial Source.
It was while handling them on Monday evening that the suspect triggered a small explosion and a fire, prompting the intervention of the firefighters then the gendarmes and finally the DGSI and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office. Because the profile of the 26-year-old man worries and questions: originally from Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, he has two passports, one Ukrainian, his nationality of birth, the other Russian, a nationality acquired recently. He has also very likely fought alongside the Russian army in recent months.
What were the motivations, the potential targets of the young pro-Russian Ukrainian? Was he manipulated or did he act alone? For the moment, his police custody has not made it possible to answer these questions, but his presence near Roissy airport, the week of the June 6 commemorations, preparing explosives, is taken very seriously. seriously by the anti-terrorist services.
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