Alleged Russian Spy Arrested Over Mission To “Destabilize” Paris Olympics Amid Drunken Rant

The Russian agent Kirill Gryaznov has been arrested in France after having been sent on a mission to “destabilize” the Paris Olympics.

Gryaznov got drunk and started telling strangers in bar that Russia had sent him for a secret mission.

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However, Kirill Gryaznov’s arrest came mere days before the games began, with the opening ceremony taking place in central Paris last Friday.

Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that “other Russian individuals” have also been arrested amid evidence of attempts to spread disinformation ahead of the Games.

“We think very strongly that he was going to organise operations of destabilisation, interference, spying,” Darmanin told BFM television. “He’s now in the justice system which will be able to confirm the suspicions of the police.”

Several European intelligence services have been on his radar ever since he was barred from boarding his flight from Istanbul, Turkey, back to Paris in May because he had too much to drink.

He was then forced to take another flight from Bulgaria, but only after he stopped in a restaurant and called his intelligence handlers in Moscow to boast that “the French are going to have an opening ceremony like no other,” just two months before the games in Paris were set to begin.