In France, a native of Donbass was detained after an explosion in a hotel: what is he suspected of?

French police arrested a native of Donbass with Russian and Ukrainian citizenship after an explosion in a hotel room in the hotel area of ​​the Charles de Gaulle airport, where he lived. This was reported by the newspaper Le Figaro.

The material notes that a 26-year-old man was hospitalized with injuries.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the detainee. The defendant was handed over to employees of the French Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI).

The hotel had to be evacuated

The defendant was detained in the municipality of Roissy-en-France on Monday, May 3. He received serious burns to his face while making homemade explosives in a hotel room, BFM clarified.

After the arrest, the police found several explosive devices in the Donbass native’s room, as well as ammonium nitrate, “an inexpensive explosive popular among terrorists,” it says in the publication of the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.

Investigators also found money, several fake passports and small arms.

A man is suspected of attempting to blow up a cargo of weapons destined for Ukraine

Le Journal du Dimanche, citing sources, stated that the man was trying to make an explosive device to detonate a cargo of weapons destined for Ukraine.

On June 4, the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into the facts of “participation in a terrorist criminal community with the aim of preparing crimes related to attacks on people” and “possession of an incendiary or explosive substance.”

The detainee denies plans to commit a terrorist attack

According to Le Figaro sources close to the investigation, the suspect, who received Russian citizenship, denies any plans of attack and claims that it was a mere accident.

However, the General Directorate of Internal Security emphasized that the French authorities take this issue very seriously.

Tensions have risen between Russia and France in recent weeks. On June 5, the French Foreign Ministry threatened the Russian Embassy in Paris with consequences because of the words of Russian diplomats that French military instructors sent to Ukraine would be a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces.

In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova promised that Moscow will respond to France in the event of any measures against Russian diplomats.

At the end of May, it became known that French leader Emmanuel Macron wants to form a coalition of instructors from European countries to send to Ukraine. According to Le Monde newspaper, sending French and European instructors to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) could be a matter of weeks or even days.