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French ex-spy suspected of Congo-Brazzaville plot shot dead in Alps
Source: The Guardian
French ex-spy suspected of Congo-Brazzaville plot shot dead in Alps
Daniel Forestier had been investigated over alleged plot to assassinate opposition figure
Kim Willsher in Paris
Wed 27 Mar 2019 14.35 GMT
The body of a former French intelligence agent linked to an assassination plot has been found riddled with bullets in a layby in the Alps.
Daniel Forestier was discovered in a pool of blood in a parking area off a little-used road in Haute-Savoie near Lake Léman. Police said the killing was a “professional job”, and a postmortem revealed he had been shot five times.
The killing of Forestier, 57, author of several spy novels, came six months after he had been officially put under investigation for his suspected role in a plot to kill an opponent of the regime of Congo-Brazzaville’s president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso.
Police said Forestier had previously served for 14 years as a member of France’s counter-espionage agency, the DGSE, the French equivalent of MI6, but did not give dates when he was an operative. He was reported to have been a member of a special military unit tasked with top-secret “sensitive operations”.
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Daniel Forestier had been investigated over alleged plot to assassinate opposition figure
Kim Willsher in Paris
Wed 27 Mar 2019 14.35 GMT
The body of a former French intelligence agent linked to an assassination plot has been found riddled with bullets in a layby in the Alps.
Daniel Forestier was discovered in a pool of blood in a parking area off a little-used road in Haute-Savoie near Lake Léman. Police said the killing was a “professional job”, and a postmortem revealed he had been shot five times.
The killing of Forestier, 57, author of several spy novels, came six months after he had been officially put under investigation for his suspected role in a plot to kill an opponent of the regime of Congo-Brazzaville’s president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso.
Police said Forestier had previously served for 14 years as a member of France’s counter-espionage agency, the DGSE, the French equivalent of MI6, but did not give dates when he was an operative. He was reported to have been a member of a special military unit tasked with top-secret “sensitive operations”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/french-ex-spy-suspected-of-congo-brazzaville-plot-shot-dead-in-alps