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, local media reported on Wednesday.
PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2018) 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, local media reported on Wednesday.
The suspect, who was detained and interrogated in Strasbourg on September 18, admitted to having searched the internet for information about the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia), 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 other 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.
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.
