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Russian Man Detained in France on Suspicion of Plotting Terror Attack - Reports

PARIS (Sputnik) - An 18-year-old man allegedly originating from Russia's Chechen Republic was detained in France's northeastern city of Strasbourg on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the France Bleu radio station reported.
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The suspect, who was detained and interrogated in Strasbourg on September 18, admitted to having searched the Internet for information about the Daesh* terrorist group but denied being radicalized, according to the France Bleu radio station.

The radio station reported that the man was a French-Russian and that his brother had also been detained in another terrorism-related case after he allegedly was in contact with a perpetrator of an attack in the Paris Opera district that killed one person in May.

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The Russian Consulate General in Strasbourg said it had not received information about a Russian national being detained. The Russian Embassy in Paris told Sputnik that it was in the process of verifying media reports.

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia


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