Frenchman arrested in Moscow accused of spying on Russian military activities

The Russian authorities have initiated a criminal case for “non-compliance with obligations established by the law on foreign agents”.

The Moscow Investigative Committee indicated that the detainee deliberately collected for several years information about Russian forces and the military-industrial complex that “can be used against state security“, without presenting the “necessary documents for inclusion in the registry of foreign agents. To this end, he visited Russia repeatedly, including the city of Moscow, where she held meetings with Russian citizens,” the official statement added.

The detainee is at the Moscow headquarters of the Investigative Committee, to present him formal charges and determine precautionary measures.

This arrest occurs shortly after the French president Emmanuel Macron will ensure that instructors French They could train Ukrainian soldiers in the handling of weapons in the ukrainian battlefield.

Another case to add to Gershkovich’s

This is a case similar to that of the United States journalist, Evan Gershkovichstopped at the end of March 2023in Yekaterinburg, accused of espionage by the Federal Security Service.

According to the FSB, the journalist “was collecting secret information on the activities of one of the companies of the Russian military-industrial complex on behalf of the American side.”

Las American authorities and the newspaper he worked for have denied the Russian security forces’ accusations against the journalist and have demanded his immediate release.

He is not the only journalist arrested for espionage in this reissue of the Cold War. The Spanish Pablo Gonzalez He has been detained in Poland for two years and three months in successively prolonged provisional detention. He is accused of spying for Russia. The Polish authorities have neither set a trial date nor presented evidence of the crimes of which they accuse him.