The French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office investigates a young Russian-Ukrainian for “planning violent actions”

June 8 () –

The French Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office announced this Friday the opening of an investigation against a Russian-Ukrainian man suspected of “planning violent actions” in the French country.

The young man, 26 years old, will be placed in preventive detention after he was arrested last Monday for the detonation of an explosive device in the hotel room he was occupying in Roissy, a town in the province of Val-d’Oise near the French capital, which had to be evacuated.

French authorities are now investigating the exact plans of this individual from the Donbas region and other people who may have collaborated with him.

According to the newspaper ‘Le Parisien’, the arrested man blew up acetone peroxide in his face after making a homemade explosive. As a result, he was admitted to the Gonesse hospital in the aforementioned province with severe burns on his face and arm.

Initial investigations suggest that the man would have fought in the Russian Army for two years after acquiring Russian citizenship. Furthermore, security sources cited by the same media indicate that the suspect could be a Russian spy who was targeting French military equipment destined for Ukraine.