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France has foiled plans for an Islamist terrorist attack on a football match during the Paris Olympic Games in July. An 18-year-old Chechen man was arrested in the eastern city of Saint-Étienne for allegedly planning to carry out an Islamist-motivated attack, the Interior Ministry in Paris announced on Friday. According to investigators, the man had been actively preparing an attack during one of the Olympic football matches at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Étienne. He was planning to target spectators as well as law enforcement officers and wanted to die as an Islamist martyr. France…

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