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This is the dramatic moment police swooped on an “immigrant hating” Frenchman who allegedly planned 15 mass attacks on the Euro 2016 football championship.

Police announced the arrest of the 25-year-old identified as Gregoire Moutaux on the day the England team flew into Paris ready for the tournament’s kick off on Friday.

A source close to the investigation said the man was “armed to the teeth and ready to strike”.

Ukraine police said he had massed a “vast arsenal” including five Kalashnikov assault rifles, two anti-tank grenade launchers, 5,000 rounds of ammunition and 125kg of TNT explosives.

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Ukrainian authorities released photos of a fair-haired man, with his face blurred, holding various weapons.

They also included a video of the arrest which showed Swat officers dragging the man out of a white minivan and putting him on the ground of what looked like a car park with his face down.

The “far-right nationalist”, who originally comes from Bar-le-Duc, near Reims, in northeast France, was arrested on Ukraine’s border with Poland on May 21.

The source said he “could have caused carnage” and described Gregoire as “a farm worker from the Lorraine district of France, who objected to his country being taken over by immigrants”.

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Gregoire was a confirmed Islamphobe and anti-Semite, and specifically wanted to target mosques, synagogues, and “large crowds building up around Euro 2016”.

Vasyl Grytsak, of the SBU Ukrainian security service, said: “We were able to prevent fifteen terrorist acts that were planned in France on the eve of and during the European Championship football.”

He confirmed Gregoire aimed to blow up “a Muslim mosque, a Jewish synagogue, tax collection organisations, police patrol units and numerous other locations.

Mr Grytsak added: “He obtained five Kalashnikov rifles, more than 5,000 bullets, two anti-tank grenade launchers, 125 kilograms of TNT, 100 detonators, 20 balaclavas and other things.”

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Gregoire was particularly opposed to the spread of Islam, globalisation and France's policy of allowing in migrants, said Mr Grytsak.

Soon after Gregoire’s arrest in Ukraine, a raid was carried out at his home in France.

There officers found Neo-Nazi T-shirts, as well as chemicals used to produce explosives. He had no criminal record.

France is deploying 90,000 security forces for the tournament, and French president Francois Hollande said on Sunday night that the threat of attacks will not stop it from being successful.

The Paris police prefect, Michel Cadot, declined to comment on the information from Ukraine, saying only that "there is no specific threat against any site in the Euro".

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Ukraine's intelligence agency had initially planned to keep a lid on the investigation but decided to go public about the arrest after reports in international media, Mr Hrytsak said.

British football fans will risk an unprecedented security threat when they travel to France for Euro 2016 this week.

It follows warnings from a range of security agencies, ranging from the US State Department to French police that Islamic State terrorists are planning to strike.

Marseille commander Laurent Nunez said the Three Lions’ opening match against Russia on Saturday in in the Mediterranean port city was "a particularly high risk".

Suggestions that the city will be attacked emerged on a computer belonging to Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the ISIS death squad that hit Paris last November.

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It managed to murder 130 people, with suicide bombers exploding devices around the Stade de France during a football friendly between France and Germany.

Abdeslam is currently on remand in a high-security prison in Paris, and has confirmed that ISIS want to attack again, while the eyes of the world are on France during Euro 2016.

France remains under a State of Emergency following last November’s attack, with thousands of soldiers joining police on the streets.

Elite special forces will be on hand to deal with possible terrorist incidents, scrambling to danger zones in a matter of minutes.