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| Frenchman 'planned Euro 2016 attacks', Ukraine's SBU says | |
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| Ukraine's SBU security agency has said that a Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks on the Euro 2016 football tournament, which begins on Friday. | |
| The man, identified by French media as Gregoire M, 25, was arrested on the Ukrainian border with Poland. | The man, identified by French media as Gregoire M, 25, was arrested on the Ukrainian border with Poland. |
| SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak said the man had been planning 15 attacks and was driven by ultra-nationalist views. | |
| He had amassed guns, detonators and 125kg of TNT, Mr Hrytsak said. | |
| News of the man's arrest first emerged in a report by French TV network M6. The suspect was described as a worker at a farming co-operative from the Lorraine area of eastern France. He had no previous criminal record, reports said. | |
| The SBU said it had been watching the suspect since December last year and that he had picked up five Kalashnikovs, two anti-tank grenade launchers, some 5,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 detonators, as well as a large quantity of explosive. |