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The history – Yellow on “sensitive” information that may have been stolen and transmitted to Moscow. An army lieutenant colonel attached to NATO ended up in the cell about ten days ago. A 007 from Moscow, who has been seen several times with him in Naples and surroundings, would have been given highly confidential information, as if to damage “the security of the state,” according to the station. Europe 1.
Defense Minister Florence Parly, invited to the microphones of the same radio station, was forced to admit that “a judicial process” is underway for “an attack on security.” In the crosshairs, a “superior officer”, whose identity has not been revealed at the moment.
The alleged French spy worked at the command of the allied forces located near the Neapolitan capital, NATO headquarters where all strategic actions for southern Europe are coordinated. The man is in his fifties, the father of five children, and has distant Russian relatives, allowing him to speak the Russian language fluently.
In Italy – on several occasions – his warnings have jumped and he has been seen in contact with a person considered a Russian spy, an agent of the GRU, Moscow’s military secret service. As suspicions mounted, Paris decided it was no longer safe.
“The Ministry of the Armed Forces has taken the initiative – explained Parly – to take the case to the Public Ministry, invoking article 40 of the Criminal Procedure Code.” An article in which any civil servant or military officer is expected to have knowledge of a crime to immediately report it to the judicial authority. And immediately the Paris prosecutor opened the investigation and the DGSI, the internal security services, arrested the suspected soldier.
The man was about to return to Italy after spending his vacation in France. There are four pending charges against the alleged French spy, the most serious of which is “providing information to a foreign power”, which puts him at risk of 15 years in prison.
A prosecutor is already investigating, the suspect has been questioned several times. But the absolute mystery remains what kind of information he would have provided his Russian colleague, how long the leak had been going on, and why it was created.
Previous – Cases of this type in France, espionage for foreign powers and in particular Russia (or the Soviet Union in its day) are quite rare, no more than a dozen have officially surfaced since the Cold War. But last July, two former 007s were convicted of treason in favor of China. In 2001, a French officer. – even in that case attached to NATO – he was convicted of having provided information to Serbia in 1998 about NATO incursions against the country during the Kosovo war.
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