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30 August 2020Spy story in Naples, where a French officer stationed at the NATO base provided important top-secret information to the Russians. The man was arrested by the secret services and is now in prison in Paris. He will have to answer for very serious crimes. The yellow is total on the "sensitive" information that may have been stolen and transmitted to Moscow.About ten days ago, a lieutenant colonel of the army seconded to NATO ended up in the cells of the Parisian prison of Santé. To a 007 from Moscow, who has been seen several times with him in Naples and its surroundings, he would have provided highly confidential information, such as to harm "the security of the State", as announced this morning by the Europe 1 broadcaster. Already today morning, the Minister of Defense, Florence Parly, invited to the microphones of the same radio, was forced to admit that "a judicial procedure" is underway for "an attack on security". In the crosshairs a "superior officer", whose identity has not been disclosed at the moment.
The alleged French spy worked at the command of the allied forces which is located near the Neapolitan capital, the headquarters of NATO where all strategic actions for southern Europe are coordinated. The man is in his fifties, father of five children and has distant Russian relatives, such as to allow him to speak the language of that country in a familiar way.
In Italy - on several occasions - his cautions have jumped and he has been seen in contact with a character considered a Russian spy, an agent of the GRU, the military secret service of Moscow.
When the suspicions became more substantial, Paris decided that there was no longer any risk of letting the traitorous officer act: "The Ministry of the Armed Forces took the initiative - Parly explained - to invest the public prosecutor in the case. invoking Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ". An article in which any official or military officer is expected to become aware of a crime to immediately inform the judicial authority. Immediately, the Paris prosecutor's office opened the investigation and the Dgsi (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure), the internal security services, arrested - about ten days ago - the suspect soldier. The man was about to return to Italy after spending his holidays in France.
4 charges are pending against the alleged French spy, the most serious of which - "supply of information to a foreign power" - is the most serious, such as to put him at risk of 15 years in prison. A prosecutor is already investigating, the suspect is in his cell and has been questioned several times. There remains the absolute mystery on the type of information he would have provided to his Russian colleague, how long the leak had been going on and for what reasons it was set up.