Coffin tags in Paris: three Moldovans arrested | EUROtoday

HASfter the invention of tags representing coffins accompanied by the phrases “French soldiers in Ukraine” within the streets of Paris, Friday June 7, three Moldovan nationals have been arrested, in accordance with info from BFMTV, Saturday June 8. These persons are suspected of being the authors of this graffiti. They have been positioned in police custody.

Paint, stencils and gloves have been discovered on the suspects throughout their arrest which passed off throughout the night time from Friday to Saturday. These tags have been claimed by a gaggle describing this act as “a response to the inadequate actions of the French authorities towards our activists who placed coffins near the Eiffel Tower”.

Suspicions of international interference

This occasion echoes the 5 coffins found on Saturday 1^er June on the foot of the Eiffel Tower. They have been accompanied by French flags and the inscription “French soldiers who died in Ukraine”. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Paris Territorial Security to find out whether or not it was international interference. Investigators established a direct hyperlink with the affair of the “red hands” sprayed on the Holocaust memorial in mid-May.

The Russian embassy in France claims to have “never interfered […] in the internal affairs of France – our country has other, more important priorities. We express our full solidarity with the French citizens who are the subject of a “witch hunt” just because they’re in favor of preserving the long-standing ties of friendship between our international locations., she laments.