PARIS (Reuters) - A Brazilian Islamist militant was plotting an attack against the French delegation at the summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, the head of a French intelligence agency has said.
General Christophe Gomart, who runs the military intelligence directorate (DRM), made the comment in May during a parliamentary commission hearing into Islamist militant attacks in France in 2015. The transcript has just been made public.
Gomart told lawmakers that his service had been told by a "partner agency" about the plot.
He did not give any further details.