French police arrest five Chechens suspected of preparing attack
PARIS (Reuters) - Police arrested five Chechens in southern France on suspicion of preparing an attack, a police source said on Tuesday.
The source said four had been arrested in Montpellier or nearby, and a fifth in Beziers. Midi Libre newspaper reported that a cache of explosives was found during police searches.
The case has not been passed onto the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office, a judicial source said. TV station LCI said organized crime and score settling between Chechen gangs was at the source of the suspects' plan.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said its diplomats had confirmed to French authorities that five people detained by police were Russian citizens. ...
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