French police on Monday arrested two activists who occupied a luxury villa in Biarritz, southern France, that they said was linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's former son-in-law.
Frenchman Pierre Haffner and Sergei Saveliev, a Belarussian political refugee, entered the house on Sunday, intending to offer the eight-bedroom residence to shelter Ukrainian refugees, Vladimir Osechkin, a Biarritz-based Russian human rights activist, told Reuters.
"While the authorities of the U.S., UK and France look for ways to act against Russia economically, we are taking our own actions," Saveliev said in a video recorded in the palm-filled grounds of the villa that include a stagnant swimming pool.
