Russia link suspected as Bulgarians jailed for vandalising Paris Jewish memorial

Four men given prison terms for desecration that was possibly ‘orchestrated by Russian intelligence services’A French court on Friday sentenced four Bulgarians to between two and four years in prison for desecrating a Jewish memorial with red handprints last year, in what prosecutors think may have been foreign interference linked to Russia.The Paris criminal court gave two-year sentences to Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev, described as the perpetrators, and four years and three years respectively to Nikolay Ivanov and Mircho Angelov, considered the operation’s “masterminds”. Angelov is still at large. Continue reading…