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Russian chef arrested in Paris over alleged ‘large scale’ Olympic Games plot (www.irishtimes.com)
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14 fucking years undercover as a chef. In Paris. That dastardly kgb

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(All the block quotes below are contiguous in the original article; it is an insane series of paragraphs.)

The intelligence services had tracked him for months. They picked up on his alleged phone call to his handler in May during at a time when he was returning from a trip to Istanbul to his home in Paris.

He missed his flight due to excessive alcohol consumption and instead returned via Bulgaria, at which point the conversation about the Olympics opening ceremony was monitored, according to Le Monde.

He was SO DRUNK he couldn't get on a plane. Either he didn't get to the airport or they wouldn't let him board.

If there is one thing I know about being SO DRUNK you can't get your basic shit done, it's that this is the perfect time to hatch a nefarious and totally real plots. Idk about you all but I actually plan my best big time crimes when I am super hammered.

And I always follow through.

At 6am on Sunday, police officers from the elite ‘research and intervention brigade (BRI), called in by the General Directorate of Internal Security, raided the suspect’s home on Rue Saint-Denis on the right bank of the Seine. It is claimed that the police found “documents of diplomatic interest” among his possessions.

Last month Microsoft said Russia was seeking to undermine the Olympics with the creation of fake websites replicating authentic French media outlets and the use of artificial intelligence to fuel concern about violence and terrorism.

like irishtimes.com?

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said this week that authorities had screened over one million people ahead of the games.

wtf does that mean

“We are here to ensure that sport is not used for espionage, cyberattacks or to criticise and sometimes even lie about France and the French,” Darmanin said. - The Guardian

now it's a crime to use sport to criticize the French?!

fuck. so much for my EPIC rhythmic gymnastics direct action.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago

This is actually really fucking scary. It means the feds know that there will be an increase in right wing violence and terror throughout Europe in the coming years and are priming the people to pretend it is all secretly Russians in disguise.