Activists held after occupying Biarritz villa owned by Putin’s ex-son-in-law
by Kim Willsher in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5X30E)
Pair said they had changed locks and wanted to offer property to Ukrainian refugees fleeing war
Two Russian activists have been arrested after breaking into and occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz owned by Vladimir Putin's former son-in-law.
Pierre Haffner, of the Svoboda Liberte Association, whose blog appears on the Mediapart news website, and Sergey Saveliev entered the eight-bedroom Alta Mira property in the French coastal resort, popular with Russian oligarchs. They announced on social media that they had changed the locks and would offer it to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.
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