A Paris court has sentenced four Bulgarian men to prison for defacing the Paris Holocaust Memorial and several buildings with “red hand” graffiti in May 2024 — an act judges linked to a coordinated campaign of Russian foreign interference designed to inflame tensions in France.
The court found all four men guilty of aggravated vandalism and criminal conspiracy.
Nikolay Ivanov, described as one of the organisers, received four years in prison and a permanent ban from French territory.
Mircho Angelov, tried in absentia as he remains at large, was sentenced to three years with an arrest warrant issued.
Georgi Filipov, who carried out the act, and Kiril Milush
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