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A Belgium politician is leading calls to ban a new group with links to an Islamist pharmacy which was forced to close in France.
Mr Paty was killed after he showed students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson. Candles are lit at a makeshift memorial as people gather to pay homage to Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was beheaded on the streets of Paris. Reuters
This month, CCIF, which was described as an “Islamist pharmacy” by France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, announced it was being liquidated and was transferring some of its assets to a new Belgium group called the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE).
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A man suspected of selling secret information to a Russian diplomat was on Monday charged with espionage by Swedish authorities.
The man, 47, is accused of meeting the Russian diplomat over a number of years and providing information for money.
It is understood the man, from Gothenburg, had worked as a researcher at Chalmers University of Technology and was a consultant at vehicle manufacturers Volvo and Scania.
He was arrested two years ago at a restaurant in Stockholm where he was dining with a Russian intelligence officer specialising in industrial espionage, Sweden s
GT newspaper said.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority claims he was given cash in return for sensitive documents.