Three men who had been arrested for entering a villa in Biarritz belonging to the former son-in-law of Russian President Vladimir Putin and where they deployed the Ukrainian flag, reported the Bayonne (southwest) prosecutor's office, were released on Monday.
The three, arrested as part of an investigation for “house rape”, were released at the end of the day. They were called to order by a delegate of the prosecutor, in the City Council of Biarritz, a procedure under the control of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Previously, the prosecution had announced that there were two detainees in the context of the case.
The infringement took place in the villa Alta Mira, whose owner is Kirill Shamalov, according to a source close to the case.
The international media portrays this businessman as the ex-son-in-law of the Russian president, following his wedding to Yekaterina Tijonova, the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin.
Among the three arrested are Pierre Haffner, a local Russophile activist, and another man who stands as an opponent of the Putin regime, according to the source close to the case.
In a video posted by the activist on YouTube, two men walk around the mansion built in the 18th century on the edge of a cliff and which has an impressive view of the Atlantic Ocean.
“This house was bought with the money stolen by Putin, by his mafia, from the Russian people and peoples oppressed by Putin's Russia,” he says in a comment.
In another video, also posted on YouTube, the other man waves a Ukrainian flag on one of the villa's two terraces. In the images, it can be read as captions: “Victory in Biarritz. Take Putin's palace” or “the village house is ready to host refugees from the Putin regime”.
At the end of February, the exterior of a property in Anglet, near Biarritz, owned by a non-commercial real estate company in the name of the former wife of the Russian president, Lyudmila, and her current husband, Russian businessman Arthur Ocheretny, was degraded.
On the doors and on the perimeter wall of Villa Suzanna, an Art Deco mansion, were painted with the message: “Fuck Putin”.
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