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Public radio security manager barred from working over suspected ties to Chechen Islamists

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Radio France headquarters in Paris.
Radio France headquarters in Paris. © Vincent Isore/IP3 via ZUMA Press/Reuters

A Paris court has upheld a 2024 decision to revoke the professional licence of a security manager who worked for the French public radio service Radio France for ten years, after intelligence services suspected him of having close ties to ‘radicalised Islamists' from Chechnya.

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