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Ukraine: Arrested Frenchman ‘posed terror threat to Euro 2016’

UKRAINIAN police said yesterday that a French ultra ­nationalist arrested last month was planning attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Gregoire Moutaux was taken into custody on Ukraine’s border with Poland on May 21 with an arsenal of guns and explosives in his possession.

French investigators found T-shirts promoting a far-right group when they raided Mr Moutaux’s home near Nancy days later.Ukrainian agents had been following him since December and had allowed him to buy five machine guns, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 275 pounds of TNT, 100 detonators and other weapons.

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