15 October 2018, 20:07

In France, 23 natives of Chechnya detained on suspicion of racketeering

The French police have detained natives of Chechnya suspected of extorting money from truck drivers. The Russian Embassy checks the information.

According to the police, the suspects forced each truck from Eastern Europe to pay them 200 euros to enter Paris. Over a month, they thus got about 200,000 euros, the newspaper "Le Figaro" reports. The natives of Chechnya were detained at the time when they were taking money.

According to the law enforcement bodies, the grouping was led by a 40-year-old Chechen native, the TASS reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on September 27, in Strasbourg, an 18-year-old native of Chechnya was detained on suspicion of plotting a terror act.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 15, 2018 at 12:18 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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