Two activists have allegedly stormed a luxurious villa belonging to Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law and declared it a shelter for Ukrainian refugees.
Pierre Haffner and Sergey Saveliev are accused of breaking into the eight-bedroom seaside residence within the French coastal resort of Biarritz, which is widespread with Russian oligarchs.
They introduced on social media that they'd modified the locks earlier than being arrested by police, studies say.
Kirill Shamalov, 39, the ex-husband of the Russian president’s second daughter Katerina Tikhonova, 35, is believed to be the proprietor.
A photograph exhibits a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag being waved by a person on a balcony connected to the house that demonstrators known as ‘Putin’s palace’.
YouTube footage uploaded by yesterday by Haffner exhibits a person strolling by the late Nineteenth-century villa overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
The video seems to recommend Ukrainian and Russian residents will unite to free Russia from Putin, whose troops have bombed hospitals and killed kids.
It begins with a cry of ‘Slava Ukraini’ – Glory to Ukraine’ – earlier than including ‘Russia will probably be free’.
A person within the video stated: ‘This home was purchased with cash stolen by Putin, by his mafia, from the Russian folks and the peoples oppressed by Putin’s Russia.’
Inside, the 2 activists discovered a replica of a passport belonging to Mr Shamalov, Impartial Russian media outlet The Insider says.
Mr Shamalov, considered Russia’s youngest billionaire, was one of many oligarchs sanctioned by the UK final month.
The director and part-owner of Sibur, a Russian petrochemicals firm, was married to Tikhonova for 5 years.
Haffner describes himself as a ‘Russian blogger’ exiled to France ‘since 2017’ and as a ‘Russophile’.
His lawyer stated he was accused of trespassing on personal property, however added she had not had the possibility to talk to him.
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