Three suspects, originating from Bulgaria, Germany, and Ukraine and all under the age of 30, were taken into custody by French officers on Monday. Their arrests followed the discovery of five untouched caskets adorned with French flags and inscribed with “French soldiers from Ukraine”, located proximate to the Eiffel Tower over the weekend.
Prosecutors are seeking charges of intentional violence for this trio. They’ve expressed that the deposition of coffins at the base of the Eiffel Tower qualifies as an act of psychological brutality. This event evolved as France contemplates dispatching military advisors to Ukraine, a move likely to cause friction amongst some allies and provoke an adversarial reaction from Russia, according to diplomatic informants from the previous week.
The French publication, Le Monde, cited security reports claiming that these three had been communicating with a male individual, believed to have besmirched the Paris Shoah memorial – a museum of the Holocaust – with red handprints in the mid of May.
In an unrelated incident, French investigating authorities initiated a probe in the previous November to uncover if two admitting Moldovans, responsible for the graffiti of Star of Davids on Parisian estates, were incited by an overseas entity. Authenticating media speculations regarding the instigator being a Russian individual, the prosecutor’s office confirmed that the Moldovans received instructions in Russian from a foreign source over a telephonic conversation.
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