Assault rifle magazines, sighting optics... All this paraphernalia classified as a "weapon of war" was found in the belongings of two men returning from Lviv, Ukraine.
They were arrested by customs this Saturday at the Paris Bercy bus station, when they got off a FlixBus coach, Le Figaro
learned
, confirming information from Le
Parisien
.
Both explained that they had left to fight with the Ukrainians.
If, until now, they had never been condemned by a court, specifies us the parquet floor of Paris, they were in the radars of the General direction of the internal security (DGSI), being the subject of a file for attack on state security, according to
Le Parisien
.
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Neo-Nazi commitment
Our colleagues from Mediapart specify that one of these two individuals is a former alpine hunter dismissed from the army because of his neo-Nazi commitment.
The other, meanwhile, is linked to the far-right movement.
At the request of the Paris prosecutor's office, both were brought to court on Monday on prior admission of guilt for transporting and possessing weapons.
They were sentenced to 15 months in prison, nine of which were suspended.
They are also prohibited for five years from possessing a weapon subject to authorisation.
