France races to head off ISIS-K threat to Paris Olympics


FILE PHOTO: Armed French soldiers patrol on the Trocadero square as part of the "Vigipirate" security near the Eiffel Tower Stadium, Champ de Mars Arena and Grand Palais Ephemere venues under construction for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Paris, France, April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Tajik journalist Temur Varki received a disquieting call from Paris police in late March, days after Islamic State militants from his homeland allegedly carried out a massacre in Moscow.

The two officers questioned him about France's tiny community of immigrants from Tajikistan, an impoverished former Soviet republic in Central Asia.

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