Security authorities foil plan to attack football events during Paris Olympics
The Paris Olympics will run from July 26 to August 11.
Security authorities have foiled a plan to attack football events during the Paris Olympics, the French interior minister said on Friday.
Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that an 18-year-old man from Chechnya was arrested on May 22 on suspicion of being behind a plan to attack football events that will be held in the city of Saint-Etienne, southwest of Lyon.
According to the initial investigation, the man was preparing an attack targeting the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium.
It was to target spectators and police forces, the statement said. The suspect wanted to attack the Olympic events “to die and become a martyr”, the statement added.
The Paris Olympics will run from July 26 to August 11.
Football matches will take place in cities across France before the final in Paris’ Stade de France.
