Security authorities foil plan to attack football events during Paris Olympics

Police patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris (Michel Euler/AP)

Security authorities have foiled a plan to attack football events during the Paris Olympics, the French interior minister said on Friday.

Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that an 18-year-old man from Chechnya was arrested on May 22 on suspicion of being behind a plan to attack football events that will be held in the city of Saint-Etienne, southwest of Lyon.