French authorities said they have foiled several plots to disrupt the 2024 games.
, including arresting a Russia n man in one of them, officials said Wednesday, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris.Paris prosecutors said Wednesday that they had arrested a 40-year-old Russia n man Tuesday at his Paris apartment on suspicion of planning to “destabilize the Olympic Games.”
During an official search of the suspect’s home in Paris, police agents found items that “raised fears of his intention to organize events likely to lead to destabilization of the Olympic Games,” prosecutors said.The Russian Embassy in Paris said it had not received any notification from French authorities about the arrest and has asked French officials for an explanation after seeing reports about it. It did not comment further.
Such threats “can consist of fake news and disinformation or online campaigns to amplify a piece of news with bots and mass circulate it,” Fibleuil said.In an example this week, French intelligence found that a video on social media supposedly showing a Hamas threat against the Olympics was fake, generated by AI and appeared to have links to Russia, according to a French security official. The official was not authorized to be publicly named discussing intelligence matters.
He did not give details on the suspect’s potential targets or whether they were in Paris or in other French cities hosting Olympic events that run through Aug. 11.
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