Two researchers from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), arrested on Monday evening as part of the investigation into jets of explosive devices against the Consulate General of Russia, recognized the facts, said on Tuesday, February 25 in the evening At the Agency France-Presse (AFP) the public prosecutor of Marseille, confirming information everyday Provence.
The two men, an engineer and a chemist, are still in police custody, said Nicolas Bessone at the end of the evening. Arrested, according to ProvenceDuring a demonstration of support for Ukraine, they said that the mixture contained in the plastic bottles launched in the consulate garden was a cocktail of nitrogen and chemicals, confirmed Mr. Bessone.
Earlier Tuesday, the prosecution had informed AFP that two people had been arrested and placed in police custody for “degradations by incendiary or explosive substance” following jets of explosive devices against the Consulate General of Russia to Marseille. Monday morning before 8 am, the third anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian consulate had been the target of bottle jets, followed by “Detonations”who had neither damaged nor injured.
“Detonations”
“Three bottles of 50 centilitrares' plastic soda” were launched in the Consulate gardens, had pointed out the police headquarters, adding that two of them had broken out, generating “Detonations”.
“The explosions that have occurred in the territory of the Russian Consulate General in Marseille present all the signs of a terrorist attack”the Russian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “We demand that the host country quickly take full investigation measures, as well as measures to strengthen the security of establishments from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”said ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, quoted by the Ria Novosti agency.
The Russian Embassy in France had said, on Telegram, that she “Had launched an early appeal to the French authorities by demanding to increase the level of security of all Russian institutions in France, given the possible provocations these days”.
The Russian Inquiry Committee, a body responsible for the main criminal investigations in Russia, announced on Monday the opening of an investigation for “attack on persons or institutions benefiting from international protection”, facts liable to Russia A sentence up to twelve years in prison.
“France condemns any damage to the security of diplomatic holds”had reacted in a statement the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recalling that “The inviolability, the protection and integrity of the diplomatic and consular rights -of -way, as well as their staff, are fundamental principles of international law”.
Source: Lemonde