French police track suspects in Paris Holocaust memorial vandalism
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00:00They were discovered on May 14th, Israel's Independence Day. Red hands painted onto France's
00:07Holocaust memorial and 10 other spots in Paris' historic Jewish neighbourhood in the Marais,
00:13graffiti condemned as anti-Semitic.
00:17Now Paris police have confirmed a report in French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné that they've
00:22identified the three men responsible for the graffiti as Bulgarians likely working as agents
00:27for Moscow. The men were reportedly captured on CCTV and identified from mobile phone information
00:35and boarded a bus to Brussels in the hours after the vandalism.
00:39A sequence of events reminiscent of another, earlier incident, a few weeks after October
00:447th, when nearly 300 stars of David was spray-painted on buildings around Paris, the work allegedly
00:51of a pair of Moldovans who also then fled by bus to Brussels.
00:55French investigators suspect that that anti-Semitic vandalism too was orchestrated by Russia's
01:01security service in an attempt to destabilise and amplify divisions in French society.