US EditionFrance Tries Bulgarians over Defacing Memorial in Russia-Linked Case
The four defendants allegedly painted 35 red handprints on a Holocaust memorial, part of nine suspected foreign interference acts linked to Russian intelligence, prosecutors said.
- On Wednesday, four Bulgarians went on trial in France accused of desecrating the Wall of the Righteous memorial, Paris by daubing red hand marks during the night of May 13 to 14 last year.
- Paris prosecutor's office says the red handprint incident is one of nine suspected foreign meddling acts possibly orchestrated by Russian intelligence services, while Viginum reported online exploitation by actors linked to Russia.
- Investigators used security footage to trace three suspects who took a bus to Belgium then flew to Bulgaria, while several other red hands were found in central Paris; prosecutors say the spies operated across the UK, Austria, Spain, Germany and Montenegro for money.
- French prosecutors opened a criminal probe for damage to a protected historical building with ethnic motives, a fourth defendant is to be tried in absentia on complicity charges, and the accused face up to seven years in jail.
- Paris has counted nine suspected meddling incidents over two years, including Stars of David stencilling , coffins at the Eiffel Tower , and pigs' heads incidents , with security reports warning of a proxy-based strategy to inflame divisions.
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In France, four men accused of tagging red hands on the walls of the Shoah Memorial, in May 2024, have been tried since Wednesday, 29 October, before the Paris Correctional Court. From the first hours of the investigation, the trail of foreign interference has been privileged. - Trial of the "red hands" on the Shoah Memorial: these clues that point to Russian interference (Police, justice and other facts).
France’s ‘red hands’ trial highlights alleged Russian disruption operations
For the past two years, France has been rocked by acts of vandalism and destruction at religious and cultural locations in and around Paris. Decapitated pig’s heads were left at area mosques; provocatively labeled coffins for the “French soldiers of Ukraine” were displayed around the Eiffel Tower; and in a first-of-its-kind trial this week, four Bulgarians stand accused of defacing a Holocaust memorial with red handprints in 2024. The latter cas…
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ledauphine.comThe first trial of Russian interference in France opened this Wednesday in Paris. Four Bulgarians are accused of being behind the red hand tags on the Shoah Memorial in May 2024.
Four Bulgarians are tried from this Wednesday at the Paris Correctional Court for damage, suspected of having been motivated by anti-Semitism, committed in May 2024 on the building. A modus operandi...
On the night of 13-14 May 2024, 35 tags representing red hands had been painted on the Wall of the Righteous of the Holocaust Memorial in Paris. Four men of Bulgarian nationality, including one on the run,
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