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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

4 Bulgarians sentenced to prison in Paris Holocaust Memorial vandalism linked to Russia

France Russia Trial - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Four Bulgarians were sentenced to between two and four years in prison for their involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on Paris' Holocaust Memorial in an act of vandalism that French intelligence services linked to a destabilization campaign by Russia.

A Paris court handed down two-year sentences to Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev, who acknowledged their role in the graffiti painting, and four years to Nikolay Ivanov, accused of recruiting them. The alleged ringleader, Mircho Angelov, is at large and received three years in prison.

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