In several cities in France, dozens of cars have been vandalized since the beginning of October. On the window or on the bodywork, the same inscription in the colors of Ukraine (light blue and yellow): “Ukraine needs your car!” » Sometimes written by hand, sometimes using a stencil. Vehicles in Montpellier, Saint-Ouen, Drancy, Saint-Mandé, Forbach and Meudon were targeted. In total, more than a hundred cars were tagged.
An unpleasant surprise for the owners of the vehicles, chosen a priori completely at random. In the Hérault prefecture, forty-seven complaints were filed. And as many vehicles targeted in the Boutonnet district, on the night of October 22 to 23. The national police have opened an investigation and are appealing for witnesses to try to find out more about the perpetrators of this damage.
“Manipulations of Russian agents”
Three Serbian nationals were also arrested in Meudon at the beginning of October. The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office confirmed to TF1/LCI the opening of an “investigation into damage during a meeting, following the arrest of two people committing the acts on around fifty vehicles”. The three men are said to have recently arrived in France.
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These inscriptions recall the discovery of coffins covered with a French flag with the words “French soldiers from Ukraine”, exhibited at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on June 1st. Or the red handprints painted on the Wall of the Righteous at the Shoah memorial in Paris, on the night of May 13 to 14. Two cases in which Russian interference strongly looms.
