Video Of French Terrorist Who Planned An Attack of Euro 2016 Getting Taken Out By Cops Is Awesome

BBC – A Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday, Ukrainian officials say.

The man, identified by French media as Gregoire Moutaux, 25, was arrested on the Ukrainian border with Poland.

Intelligence chief Vasyl Hrytsak said the man had planned 15 attacks and was driven by ultra-nationalist views.
He had amassed guns, detonators and 125kg of TNT, Mr Hrytsak said.

Mr Hrytsak listed bridges, motorways, a mosque and a synagogue among the suspect’s potential targets. He was being prosecuted for arms smuggling and terrorism, he said.

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Suchhhhhhh a bummer when you spend so much time plotting a terrorist attack and they catch literally all of it on 1 million minutes of video. All that hard work to try and kill innocent people because you’re a brainwashed fuckhead, poof, down the drain. One second you think you’re some mastermind who managed to sneak anti-tank grenade launchers and 100 detonators past the eyes of counter-terrorism, the next second you’re getting ripped out of your sweet van and curb stomped on the pavement while cops play back your past 2 months for you on their iPhones.

Kind of wish they just whisked this guy off to a black site to test out some new waterboard techniques, but I guess we can be happy with the fact that, unless they misplace 1,000 hard drives full of the most incriminating activities ever, it should be an open and shut case.

Ukraine’s SBU security service said it had been watching the suspect since December last year and that he had picked up five Kalashnikovs, two anti-tank grenade launchers, some 5,000 rounds of ammunition and 100 detonators, as well as a large quantity of explosives.

An SBU video was shown of the dramatic moment of the suspect’s arrest along with the weapons that intelligence officials said they had found. The arrest was said to have taken place at a border crossing close to the Ukrainian town of Yahodyn.

The footage also revealed a second person being wrestled to the ground on the passenger side of the car.

The SBU chief said the French suspect had been in touch “with military units fighting in Donbass”, a reference to the eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have seized large areas of Ukrainian territory.

“The Frenchman spoke negatively of the activities of his government on mass migration of foreigners to France, the spread of Islam and globalisation. He also said he wished to stage a number of terrorist attacks in protest,” Mr Hrytsak said.

[h/t BBC, Reddit]